"As an educator, I try to get people……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there."
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375 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson has 375 quotes on this site.
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love,…
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
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The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't…
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After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are…
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Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did…
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I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't…
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'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the…
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Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
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I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto'…
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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet,…
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On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an…
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers.…
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I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.
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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who…
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they…
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It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich,…
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I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on.…
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce…
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