Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I try to do what has never been done before.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

I will always do something new.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

I like people who push the envelope.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.