"What people are really after is, what is……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic."
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375 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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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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 Agnostic Quotes
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
— Michelle Bachelet
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I have to recognize that I am agnostic.
— Antonio Banderas
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith…
— William Jennings Bryan
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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist…
— Isaac Asimov
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The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests…
— Douglas Adams
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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
— H. L. Mencken
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The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
— Ernest Renan
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