You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to… — 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
Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People...kids say, 'I want to do that when I grow up'. Because you want to… — 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
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
I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone… — 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
So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would… — 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
People put clips of me up. There are quotes from me. I've written books, of course. I'm on Twitter. There are dozens… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go back into space for military reasons, but the economic driver still remains. And so it's a matter… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said… — 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
We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid… We should measure our era by how many people… — 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
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
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
The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for… — 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
'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked… — 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
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
People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to… — 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
I am not the most annoying person to bring to a movie 'cause I basically hold it in and write about it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe -… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Right now people think God is dark energy and dark matter, the spirit. Go ahead and think that, but the day we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a… — 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
![“You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your conduct. And it's the yes to that question that applies to 40% of scientists. So, there're plenty of atheists who are scientists or not scientists. There maybe a…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9f8/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_agnosticism_you-ask-people-do-you-pray-to-a-person-o_1460056.jpg)
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