black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Encouragement Live Need People World
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Appearance Beginning Time Try Universe
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Empowerment Literature Science Yourself
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

History Human Ignorance Myself Time
When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Cheating Exam Learning Student Value
Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Capacity Law Nature People Seek Thinking Victim Yourself
I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Alien Close Earth Examination Fact Human Intelligence Life
After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Alien Death Human Hungry Idiot
What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Cosmos Emotion Fragile Human Ignorance Journey Lesson Universe
If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Democracy Information Upset Yourself
You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Annoy Change Children Culture Food Pieces Question Reward Rise Yourself
As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Best Common Current Ground Practice
Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Design Ignorance Intelligence Philosophy
You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Decision Disaster Future Literature Office People Politics Recipe Vote
I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Criticism People Thinking Truth
The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Be Yourself Greatness Inspirational Motivational People Society Version

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes