You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in… — 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the… — 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
![“Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand]…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1b6/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_ass_does-it-mean-if-you-don-t-understand-som_2207378.jpg)
![“They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b0/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_century_they-scientists-of-centuries-past-call-o_12921.jpg)
