Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

… informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.

Believe

Ignorance

People

… there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

Ignorance

Knowing

Mind Blowing

‘As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?’ Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I’d prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.

Bad Ass

Space

Two

‘Boldly going where hundreds have gone before’ does not make headlines.

Doe

Gone

Headlines

‘Cause a musician, you can’t tell me, “I’ve got this message I want share with the public,” and it’s three-and-a-half minutes long. That’s not it. If your message is only three-and-a-half minutes long, then we got nothing else to talk about. Because life is more complex than three-and-a-half minutes.

Long

Musician

(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians… They’re the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies… issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

Educational

Issues

Technology

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

Gravity

Knows

Percent

95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin.

Known

Percent

Universe

A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object’s mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody’s brain to the imparting of common sense.

Brain

Common Sense

Science

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

Cry

Data

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Action

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Airplane

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Amendments

America

Animal

Answers

Appetite

Appreciate

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Arms

Army

Art

Artist

Artistic

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Astrophysics

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Atheist

Atmosphere

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Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

… informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.

… there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

‘Boldly going where hundreds have gone before’ does not make headlines.

(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians… They’re the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies… issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin.

A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object’s mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody’s brain to the imparting of common sense.

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.

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