People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I long for a civilization to develop a level of science literacy, so that we can become better shepherds of our future… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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
Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100… — 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
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
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
“The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet...I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that… — 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
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
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. — 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
Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is. — 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
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
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
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing… — 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
I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“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
To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what… — 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
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in… — 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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