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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.
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
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.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
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.
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."
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.
