black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Change Curiosity End People World
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
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
Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Fools Science Way Yourself
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Flow Literature Problem Science Solution
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Fact Important Inspirational Motivational Ourselves Spiritual Universe
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
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Drive Philosophy Suffering Surprise World Yourself
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Empowerment Literature Science Yourself
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
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
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Believe Blind Decline Investigation Natural Science See World Worst
The 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 TYSON

Earth Old Thinking Universe
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

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes