black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Believe Fact True Yourself
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
Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Curiosity Light Plant Reflection Rejection Yourself
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Cure Humanity Ignorance Reason Start Virus
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 TYSON

Body Literature Stardom Universe
So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Education Empath Formal Imagination Reading Training Writing
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
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
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
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
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
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Curious Dumb Live People Yourself
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
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

History Human Ignorance Myself Time
As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Area Ignorance Knowledge
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Biology Connection Deep Each Other Earth Science Universe

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes