I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist'… — 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
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
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 see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist. — 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 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
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
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'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
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
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
The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if… — 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
Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we… — 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
I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want… — 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
Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, "If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send… — 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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