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Thinking Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- 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 art teachers or…
- I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The…
- Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon…
- It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.
- Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria…
- Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.It could be…
- I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.
- 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…
- Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to…
- Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look…
- I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
- When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then…
- I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
- The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can…
- I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
- If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as…
- I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal,…
- As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you,…
- The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric…
- While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only…
- I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's…
- When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that…
- Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see…
- Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
- George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is…
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