I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think 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
If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,'… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there… — 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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