Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.

Advancing waves of other people’s progress sweep over the unchanging man and wash him out.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

I think we live in a period of profound transformation. Very similar to when we had a transition from agricultural societies to industrial societies.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Technology changes nothing.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.

Technology has become our culture

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

I think tech is driving most of the innovation and will continue to for a very, very long time.

Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.