Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

I like the big questions.

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

Que sçais-je?" (What do I know?)

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.

My purpose is to explain, not the meaning of words, but the nature of things.

I think it's normal that for a part of your life you have a lot of questions, and you're interested in all possible theories.

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.

Love the questions, themselves.