"Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance."
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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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More Charlatans Quotes
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
— Anton Chekhov
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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part…
— Victor Hugo
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There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine…
— Elbert Hubbard
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need,…
— Denis Diderot
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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to…
— Carl Sagan
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Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became…
— Michio Kaku
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What gets up my nose is being infantilized by governments, by the BBC, by the Guardian that there is no…
— Michael Buerk
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Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can…
— Dominique Fernandez
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as…
— Bertrand Russell
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the…
— Emma Goldman
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There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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