I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
when I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brain spill out, making… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is not just 'Here are some facts, learn that'. There's a thread through these stories that, if you know how to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Anyone who has wrestled knows that it's the hardest thing in the world to do. Anyone who says something else is the hardest thing has never wrestled. That's what I have found. ... You don't wrestle because it's easy, you wrestle because it's hard. I don't do astrophysics because it's easy, I do it because it's hard. And I juxtapose… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
“Science’s skeptical core makes it a poor competitor for human hearts and minds, which recoil from its ongoing controversies and prefer the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity… — 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. Remember what the “U” stands for in “UFO”? You see lights flashing in the sky. You’ve never seen anything like this before and don’t understand what it is. You say, “It’s a UFO!” The “U” stands for “unidentified.”… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“[...] however big our world is - in our hearts, our minds, and our outsized digital maps - the universe is even… — 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
Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm revealing information to people. I'm not creating it. And to the extent that people embrace it, I think they're empowered by… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially… — 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
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