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
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
Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Many people are unhappy because there was some point in their past where there was some glory day, and as they get… — 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
“These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate… — 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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
