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
Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine — 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
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in… — 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
“ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Where did the concept of "without borders" come from? No one had that concept until you saw Earth from space, illustrated not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Most places in the universe will kill life instantly—instantly! People say “Oh, the forces of nature are just right for life.” Excuse… — 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
“To make this journey, we'll need imagination but imagination alone is not enough because the reality of nature is far more wondrous… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — 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
Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the… — 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
“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without… — 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
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
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
To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're… — 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… — 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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