“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. —EDWIN P. HUBBLE (1889–1953), The Nature… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your… — 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
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“even a scientist can’t help thinking of the Periodic Table as a zoo of one-of-a-kind animals conceived by Dr. Seuss. How else… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist'… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Like the microscopic strands of DNA that predetermine the identity of a macroscopic species and the unique propertires of its members, the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what… — 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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