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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
