Neil deGrasse Tyson Philosophical Quotes

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Philosophical

“I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.”

World Successful Predictions

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Philosophical

“Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.”

Fighting Technology Community

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Philosophical

“Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today was bred from a wild, less edible ancestor. If artificial selection can work such profound changes in only ten or fifteen thousand years, what can natural selection do operating over billions of years? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life.”

Years Animal Profound

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Philosophical

“I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.”

Space Watches Intellectual

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Philosophical

“Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?”

People Technology Wonder

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Philosophical

“A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.”

Battle Data Cry

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Philosophical

“Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven.”

People Two Science

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Philosophical

“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.”

People Creative Discovery

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Philosophical

“Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if it means they make a mess of your kitchen or living room. It's all about your perspective on these things. Let them play. When you do, the kids do not have to be reintroduced to ways of questioning nature, and the task of promoting science would be a trivial exercise.”

Mean Children Kids

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Philosophical

“The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.”

Phones Grandma Gps

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Philosophical

“I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.”

Culture Scientist Pops

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Philosophical

“Only when you question does society move or advance at all.”

Moving Doe

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Neil deGrasse Tyson — Philosophical Quotes

Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes