Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

People are going to like what they like, and they're going to be vocal about what they don't like.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

I don't like comparing people or teams.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion.

I would love it if everybody in America agreed with me on every issue. I can't get my wife to agree with me on every issue, let alone the American people. It's called democracy. That's what it's about.

Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort, it does have the virtue of truth according to our most effective resources for acquiring knowledge. No philosophy, moral outlook, or religion can be inconsistent with the findings of science and hope to endure among educated people.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Taste has nothing to do with style.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes.

There's a lot of people out there who didn't like my style of comedy.

I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.

I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like a bunch of Italian chefs screaming risotto recipes at each other.

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

Some people are going to like the decisions I made, some people are not going to like the decisions that I made. That's just the way it is.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.

People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.