Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of… — 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
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“But who gets to think that way? Who gets to celebrate this cosmic view of life? Not the migrant farm worker. Not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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
People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without… — 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
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of… — 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
