More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem
