Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is 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.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

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

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honor, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

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

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?