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Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes | Quotes said by Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #1

    ... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #2

    ... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #3

    A bullet fired level from a gun will hit ground at same time as a bullet dropped from the same height. Do the Physics.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #4

    All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #5

    Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives the economies of the future—would be incalculable. I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #6

    Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #7

    As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #8

    As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #9

    Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #10

    But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. This is very different from the way journalists portray us. So many articles begin, “Scientists now have to go back to the drawing board.” It’s as though we’re sitting in our offices, feet up on our desks—masters of the universe—and suddenly say, “Oops, somebody discovered something!”

    No. We’re always at the drawing board. If you’re not at the drawing board, you’re not making discoveries. You’re not a scientist; you’re something else. The public, on the other hand, seems to demand conclusive explanations as they leap without hesitation from statements of abject ignorance to statements of absolute certainty.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #11

    Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #12

    Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #13

    Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #14

    Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #15

    Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #16

    Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #17

    Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #18

    Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #19

    Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #20

    Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #21

    Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #22

    Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #23

    Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #24

    For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #25

    God is an ever receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #26

    How do we change the way science is taught?

    Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in their life, and you never come up with more than the fingers on one hand. You remember their names, you remember what they did, you remember how they moved in front of the classroom. You know why you remember them? Because they were passionate about the subject. You remember them because they lit a flame within you. They got you excited about a subject you didn't previously care about, because they were excited about it themselves. That's what turns people on to careers in science and engineering and mathematics. That's what we need to promote. Put that in every classroom, and it will change the world.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #27

    Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #28

    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 easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #29

    I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote #30

    I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.

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