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Neil deGrasse Tyson
“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suff...
“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum...
“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.”
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
“When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.”
“Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?”
“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down...
“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a ...
“My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”
“Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of ...
“I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, ev...
“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
“People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang ...
“I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know w...
“I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathem...
“When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The ...
“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anythin...
“I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets retur...
“One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they h...
“I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the...
“People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what i...
