The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space -… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought?… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument from ignorance.” This is how it goes.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is not what any one scientist puts forth. It can be that, but it is generally not. It is the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People say, oh we just need charismatic leaders to continue on to Mars. Now we've gone to the moon, of course Mars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an… — 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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