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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.
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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.
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.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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.
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
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.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
