If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe 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.
More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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.
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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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