Neil Degrasse Tyson

Quotes

• “I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, eve...”
• “The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the...”
• “People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang a...”
• “When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The s...”
• “Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of t...”
• “I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets return...”
• “Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one...”
• “Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of k...”
• “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffe...”
• “I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that yo...”
• “I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know wh...”
• “We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down....”
• “The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything...”
• “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
• “Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
• “My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”
• “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
• “Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination”
• “God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”