In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what… — 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
If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any… — 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
Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought?… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid… — 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'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
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
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