Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — 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
![“I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e69/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_broadway_i-can-tell-you-that-in-my-modern-life-i_2199529.jpg)
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