Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motiv — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the c — 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 suffe — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the — Neil deGrasse Tyson
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets return — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nic — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything — Neil deGrasse Tyson
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang a — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, eve — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
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. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person’s body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The s — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of k — Neil deGrasse Tyson
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 wh — Neil deGrasse Tyson