Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.