Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care.

He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

I like to think I've changed the centre of gravity on lots of national debates.

It's on the people to dictate what is relevant and what is moving.

Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

I don't think you should necessarily listen to a celebrity just because he is one. But if you can marshal your celebrity and really steep yourself in whatever issue you're trying to promote, it can actually move the ball forward, and we've done that.

People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.

Business leaders shape public opinion.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

Sometimes political parties have a very short window to influence public policy

Campaigns have consequences.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

Critics intend on changing the balance of public opinion and of political power.