The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do. — 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
Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows... You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with… — 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
Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen.… — 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
Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way. — 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
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the… — 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 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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