Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.

Science is not inherently good.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

The emergence of modern science as a major new frontier of advancement that would lead, on one hand, to the discovery of new secrets of the universe, the invention of means to harness those secrets and the powers they represented, and the means to improve human health and allow humans to survive to both undertake that work and to enjoy its fruits.

As a number of people have stressed over the years, I think it would be premature to assume science itself will explain everything.

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

Regardless of what Einstein had come up with, it is very possible that a few hundred years into the future some scientist comes up with something that they have spotted in the universe that we have no idea exists today.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

What are the "maximum" limits of acceptance of the term "intellectual"?

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.