“The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.” — 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
“As a scientist, you must embrace the inconstancy of knowledge.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found. — 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
People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective comes from the frontiers of science, yet it is not solely the provenance of the scientist. It belongs to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“So, whether the aliens explore with chemistry or with radio waves, they might come to the same conclusion: a planet where there’s… — 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
“Other unrelenting skeptics might declare that “seeing is believing”—an approach to life that works well in many endeavors, including mechanical engineering, fishing,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it… — 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
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit. — 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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
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