Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

"50 Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes & Sayings

      American     /     View profile
Born: 5 October 1958 | Cosmologist | Scientist | Author |

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Ask Clueless Curious Dumb
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

Exploration Force Itself Nature
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.

About Earth Live Make
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.
Before Creative Most Motivated
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.

About Adult Born Children
  Favorite Make wallpaper

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

Culture Cycles Die Economic
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
Against Basically Charlatans Science
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Education Greater Than Self-driven
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

Becomes Being Frontier Longer
  Favorite Make wallpaper
It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
Brain Maybe Mechanism Motion
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

Beaten Champions Chess Computers
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

Ambition Exploration Got Humans
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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.

Because Enterprise Expensive Frontier
  Favorite Make wallpaper
All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
Entire Full Names Particular
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

Any Bigger City Illusion
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

Goes Lot Memorize School
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

Best Discoveries Expect Nature
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Animals Capacity Earth Empathize
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

Doing Get Knowing Satisfaction
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.

Allowed Break Consequence Doing
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
Deaths Environments Fascinated Havoc
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

Enough Figure Intelligent Know
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

Agree Democracy Efficient Everyone
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Book Conceive Generally Long
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Eclipse Solar Spectacle Total
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

Almost Cases Hard HardWork
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

Gets Give Hardest Make
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one.
Even Less Many Much
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Accurate Only Physics Profession
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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.

Barriers Breach Confidence Continue
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Better History Human Ignorance
  Favorite Make wallpaper
It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.
Animals Culture Give Human
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

About Always Dreams Filled
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

Alive Animal Every Much
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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.

Both Facts Important More
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
Carry Cosmic Could Enough
  Favorite Make wallpaper

As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time

Applying Ends History Just
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

Flow Literacy Problems Science
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

Because Day Every Face
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

Been Else Ever Greatest
  Favorite Make wallpaper
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.
Best Employed Everything Fully
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

Conduct Natural Nature Science
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

Creativity Drive Emotions Never
  Favorite Make wallpaper

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

About Education Great Less
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.
Advances Cross Culture Disciplines
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

Barely Controlled Diseases How
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.
Been Even Know Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
Blown Day Everyone Mind
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.

Dark Energy Exotic Expansion
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

Argument Driver Economic Only
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes & Sayings