Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance. — 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
You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies. — 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
“Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already… — 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
Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation… — 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
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — 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
“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
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
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
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
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles. — 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
Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way… — 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
“People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and… — 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
Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such… — 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
