black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Best Children Myself Raise Simplicity Thinking Way
If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Enough People Smart Success Yourself
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Dreams People Politics Thinking True Truth World
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Empowerment Literature Science Yourself
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

Earth Fantasy Intelligence Life Rejection Visit
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
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Academic Argument Better Job Need People
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Close Pretend Reality
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
To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Device Internet Learning Science
God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Build Display Entertainment God Humor Ourselves System
If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Cool Death Each Other Ghost Haunt
We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Children Learning Life Talk Walk Wrong
If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Earth Inspirational Motivational Planet Power
Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Build Discover Philosophy Problem Program Science Smart

Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes