Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that's a good way to live.

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

I think these kinds of public disputes are bad for our people.

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

In marriage people get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person. If you do want to hurt the other person, then shame on you - you're an asshole. My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.

... 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.

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.

It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.

There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art.

The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.