... 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
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
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about… — 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces… — 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
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,… — 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
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's… — 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
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
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is not what any one scientist puts forth. It can be that, but it is generally not. It is the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and… — 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
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get… — 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
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
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
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
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
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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