Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

The basis of religion is independent of science. Theology, not religion, is the antithesis to science

Faith is a big thing we explore.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

I also work with the spirituality of people.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever.

Religion has nothing to do with spirituality.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

My driving force is spirituality.

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

The mind God is looking for in man is a doubting, questioning mind, not a dogmatic mind; dogmatic reasoning is wrong reasoning. Dogmatic reason ties a huge rock to a man’s foot and stops him forever from advancing.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.

Faith requires a leap; otherwise, it just becomes science.

I want to get to know God.