New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't require that the main guest [of StarTalk] have any science knowledge or background at all. It's just, I have a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science is not just about seeing, it’s about measuring, preferably with something that’s not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is not just 'Here are some facts, learn that'. There's a thread through these stories that, if you know how to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we… — 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
I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the… — 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
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide… Yes, 86… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us… Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“...people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can… — 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… — 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
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
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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