Quotes from Neil deGrasse Tyson

The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

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

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.

It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children

If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

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.

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

Let's invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let's invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow.

Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home.

God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.

Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.

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?

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