If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don't see evidence for it anywhere in the world.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The greatest of people in society carve niches that represent the unique expression of their combinations of talents. If everyone had the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642 — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything! — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand… — 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
So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's… — 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
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them. — 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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