Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten… — 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
There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I… — 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
As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And… — 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
When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture… — 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
I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet sitting on - you know, laying… — 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
![“The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9b8/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_controversial_the-press-still-thinks-global-warming-is_2538466.jpg)
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