Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Science is true, whether you believe it or not.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

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

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down. down. Amen! If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it.

The bedrock of science is the unwillingness to accept authority.

Facts are placed before reasonings and before ideals, even though the reasonings and the ideals be more beautiful, be seemingly more lofty, be seemingly better, be seemingly truer. The seemingly absurd and the seemingly impossible are sometimes true. The scientific disposition is to accept facts upon evidence, however absurd they may appear to our pre-conceptions.

You can't manage science.... There are some things that you have to do based on the facts regardless of your ideology.

Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

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.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.