Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The four most common chemically active elements in the universe—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen—are the four most common elements of life on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“How do we change the way science is taught? Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in their life, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“While most branches of science have ascended in this era, the field of astrophysics persistently rises to the top. I think I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My interest in the space program has a certain purity to it because I recognize the romance of it but I was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We have one collective hope: the Earth And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless, famine and calamity abound Sufferers hurl themselves into the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that… — 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
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