Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Everything is an experiment.

Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.

If I experiment enough, I get a deeper understanding.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.

I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.