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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
It's better to understand something than to memorize something.
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.
We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.
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.
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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. There's something wrong there.
