Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes
Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.
WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming.
I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.
You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.
If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.
I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time.
We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.
Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn’t change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.
WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.
If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie
It would be amazing if something completely spiritual sounding happened. Oh, my gosh! We'd be all over it. Because it's something new about the physical universe.
It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.
Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).
There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.
If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.
It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right?
If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.
You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.
You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.
Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And that is what it has become. And that's unfortunate.
There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.
You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows.
