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Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

American - Scientist | October 5, 1958 -

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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Education Passion Today Great More

So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

God History Moment People Discovery

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Age Feel Week Born NASA Same

Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Business Yourself Doing You Want

The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science Challenges Wait Famous Wrong

NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Eye NASA Surgery Accurate Impressive

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Evolution Gravity Theory Like Fact

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Creative People Problems Motivated

Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Work Bible Impact Organizing Nobody

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Children Curious World Curiosity

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson

People Society Think Someone Never

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Step Mind Window Universe Feel Way

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