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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
