Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

In science, mistakes always precede the truth

There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Experimentation is an active science.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Science is about filling in the details.

Kids are natural scientists.

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Research is creating new knowledge.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.