The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONAs 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 TYSONI don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf 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 TYSONI think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe 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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWe 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 TYSONI know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONScience literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONMy goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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