Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

Ever since I was little, I've always had a few science experiments going on.

Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.