Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

Imagine the possibilities!

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

We're all dreamers.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

Hope is a waking dream.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

See things not as they are but as they might be.

We have lots of ideas, lots of dreams.

I'm really excited for the future, and I'm a very extremely creative person.

My job is to allow people to dream. Make the impossible seem possible.

I'm a great believer in possibilities.

The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

The future is a convenient place for dreams.

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

We think of our future as anticipated memories.