Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

American - Scientist | October 5, 1958 -

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.

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Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

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The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.

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Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.

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I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

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Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

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

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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.

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I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

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I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

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I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.

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

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