Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

True science teaches, above all, to doubt

Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

We need a world where the values of science are celebrated: free inquiry, free speech and a healthy skepticism, all coupled with a sense of wonder, a respect for truth and an ability to reason.

Science is not wisdom.

I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.