I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“we shouldn’t reshape our science just to avoid confusing the public” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of… — 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
“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of… — 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
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
If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new… — 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
There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a… — 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
“I don’t have an issue with what you do in the church, but I’m gonna be up in your face if you’re… — 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