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
Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“You need to live in a nation whose government values the search to understand humanity’s place in the universe.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“To govern a society shared by people of emotion, people of reason, and everybody in between—as well as people who think their… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your… — 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
George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Around the world, varying belief systems lead to political differences that are not always resolved peacefully. The power and beauty of physical… — 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 a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder,… — 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 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
![“George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is the God who named the stars. The problem is: two-thirds of all stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. That would confound…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/082/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_all-stars_george-bush-within-a-week-of-this-the-9_1566914.jpg)
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