"Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything."
-Neil deagrasse Tyson
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours."
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Learning the age of the Earth or the distance to the stars or how life evolves - what difference does that make? Well, part of it depends on how big a universe you're willing to live in. Some of us like it small. That's fine. Understandable. But I like it big. And when I take all of this into my heart and my mind, I'm uplifted by it. And when I have that feeling, I want to know that it's real, that it's not just something happening inside my own head, because it matters what's true, and our imagination is nothing compared with Nature's awesome reality."
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Watching Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey tonight. Fascinates me more each time I watch it. I bet you all could relate!
"Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think."
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
"If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you."
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
It's difficult to understand, so religious people fill in the gaps with God. Saying, "God did it" is ignorant and lazy. Just because science doesn't have an answer to something right now, it doesn't mean there never will be.