black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Fundamental Information Knowledge Natural World
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
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Believe Goodness Science True Yourself
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
What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Believe Different Experiment Result True Work Yourself
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
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 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 TYSON

God Need Satisfaction Stop Understand World
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
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

History Human Ignorance Myself Time
Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Life Ocean Universe Water
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 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
Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Buy Food Human Store Wild Yourself
$Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote - Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.$

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Cosmos Language Mathematics Space Universe
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

Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes