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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The worst thing that ever happened to America was the 19th Amendment.
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.
The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
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.
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.
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
