Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.

I always want to know about things.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Tell me, O wise man, how hast thou come to know so astonishingly much? By never being ashamed to ask of those that knew!

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.