More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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?
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
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.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.
You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.
It's better to understand something than to memorize something.
