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There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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
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
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
If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Enough People Smart Success Yourself
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.
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Fundamental Information Knowledge Natural World
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
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
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
There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Community Greatness People Science Truth
Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Idiot Nation One Liner Politics Stupidity Transformation
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Ignorance Literature Science World Yourself
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
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 object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Class Myself Object Religion Room Science
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 theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Evolution Gravity Science Theory

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