Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around… — 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
We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet...I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in… — 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
We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with… — 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
Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don't see evidence for it anywhere in the world.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The greatest of people in society carve niches that represent the unique expression of their combinations of talents. If everyone had the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them… — 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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