black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Enough Imagination Nature Reality Wonderful
Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Goodness Literature Mathematics Myself People Reading
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 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
Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Cosmos Learning Limitation Sand Surprise
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Change Curiosity End People World
We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Encouragement Live Need People World
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Evolution Gravity Science Theory
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
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
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
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

God Ignorance Move Science Small Time
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Beyond Empowerment Thinking
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Desperate Opinion True Truth Yourself
Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Design Ignorance Intelligence Philosophy
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

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes