Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

I look forward to trying the Internet.

The Internet is an amazing development.

I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is.

If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?

I've been, like, the mom of Google.

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.

Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet.

A lot of environmental and biological science depends on technology to progress. Partly I'm talking about massive server farms that help people crunch genetic data - or atmospheric data. But I also mean the scientific collaborations that the Internet makes possible, where scientists in India and Africa can work with people in Europe and the Americas to come up with solutions to what are, after all, global problems.

My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996.

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.

The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.

Stupid Internet. I don't know why everyone is so impressed with it.