Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Scientific method isn't about winning popularity contests. It's also not about being with the majority opinion. It isn't supposed be determined by politics. It is about attempting to limit bias or prejudice in the results

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.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

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

You will never succeed in getting at the truth if you know, ahead of time, what the truth ought to be

The common aim of all science is the gradual removal of prejudice.

We should all be troubled when science is treated as if it were an ideology rather than a discipline.

We're all biased, right, in many different ways - politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us - and that's fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.

When we make decisions based on factors other than the available empirical evidence, we are less than objective, which means we are no longer acting as scientists.

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

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.

No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

A true conservative is on the side of science.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

With the experience to judge, one need not pre-judge.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

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.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.