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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
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.
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.
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
