Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

If the facts change, I’ll change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?

I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try to have a conversation with you to ask why it offends you, and tell you why objective truth should not offend you because that's how the world works.

I will adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

We need a world where the values of science are celebrated: free inquiry, free speech and a healthy skepticism, all coupled with a sense of wonder, a respect for truth and an ability to reason.

I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery.

It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

We cannot be so scared that our ideas or opinions will not survive being tested. If you are afraid of being wrong, then you might not have a good argument.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

I'd ask people to keep in mind the idea that if you really understand something, it's even more important for you to consider the possibility of your wrongness. Even if it takes someone dumber than you to point that out.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right away. That's not my way of doing things; I don't belong to the world of people who do things that way. I insist on this difference as something essential: a whole morality is at stake; the one that concerns the search for truth and the relation to the other.

If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you.

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

You don't need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?'

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.