Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's better to understand something than to memorize something. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“My confidence that there is a loving God who cares at all for your health or your longevity, based on what I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“It is the knowledge that I'm going to die that creates the focus that I bring to being alive; the urgency of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionary and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up. — 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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