Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes (229 quotes)

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„The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„The need to create a new taxonomy that isn't just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent that something will come out of it. I'm sure of it, even if it's not tomorrow.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on another planet. Show me a dead alien. Better yet, show me a live one!“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science can go. The rest, you know, are just fine with science. And it has been that way ever since the beginning.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?'“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.“
Picture of quotation author Neil deGrasse Tyson
„The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.“

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Author born: October 05, 1958
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Scientist

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