We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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