Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community?

He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

My faith is central to who I am as a human being, not just as an actor - so it informs every decision I make, whether it's deciding on a project or deciding on how to treat the guy who cuts me off in traffic.

There's less of a connection for a lot of people between the technical decisions we make and the ethical ramifications we are responsible for.

Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

I believe in evidence-based decision making. I want to know what the facts are.

Truth does not demand belief.

The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say no. People have base instincts, but the transcendent also appeal to them.

Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

You have to have a temperament to grab ideas and do sensible things. Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it.