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 said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody… — 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
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person… — 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
I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are photons that have been traveling for 30,000 years, and I'm... snatching them from this journey and planting them into my… — 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
The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work… — 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
![“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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