It's better to understand something than to memorize something. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. If you are successful, it would be wrong to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“It is the knowledge that I'm going to die that creates the focus that I bring to being alive; the urgency of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements… — 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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