Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

A system such as classical mechanics may be 'scientific' to any degree you like; but those who uphold it dogmatically - believing, perhaps, that it is their business to defend such a successful system against criticism as long as it is not conclusively disproved - are adopting the very reverse of that critical attitude which in my view is the proper one for the scientist.

Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.

If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.

I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

The great tragedy of Science --- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

If you're a real scientist, you're constantly open to new data. Nothing is ever 100% validated.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can - you see if it's repeatable.

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

Educated guesswork' is what science is. You form hypotheses, test them against the evidence, and if they fit the evidence, you can assume you've got close to the truth.

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.