In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding. — 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — 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… — 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
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
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics… — 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
The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are… — 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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
