Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most su...”

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”

“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under e...”

“I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.”

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”

“I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: Have you HEARD THIS?”

“Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?”

“My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”

“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”

“I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have din...”

“In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.”

“Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination”

“Dont know if its good or bad that a Google search on Big Bang Theory lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe”

“You know that passage in the Bible that says, And the meek shall inherit the Earth? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, And the geek shall inherit the Earth.”

“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”

“People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not abo...”

“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.”

“I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of...”

“... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked ...”

“When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.”