Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

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.

We can't assume what we don't believe.

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?

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.

Science is not wisdom.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

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.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.