It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It would be great if we were on multiple planets, but I think that's unrealistic. Hawking says we have to be on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People say, oh we just need charismatic leaders to continue on to Mars. Now we've gone to the moon, of course Mars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory… — 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
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
Right now people think God is dark energy and dark matter, the spirit. Go ahead and think that, but the day we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That the north star is the brightest in the night sky. I'd guess about 9 out of 10 people think this. But… — 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If an artist is reaching for the universe as a source of creative muse, then I'm there. I'm gonna say, "Yeah. Here's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am not the most annoying person to bring to a movie 'cause I basically hold it in and write about it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We still refer to sunrise, sunset. That only has meaning if you think that Earth is in the center of things, and… — 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
I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics… — 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
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm revealing information to people. I'm not creating it. And to the extent that people embrace it, I think they're empowered by… — 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
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 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
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