What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less… — 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
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
I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization. — 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
'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong,… — 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
Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes…… — 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
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the… — 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
It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts… — 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
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a… — 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
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 a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder,… — 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 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