Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Change happens at the frontier.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.

If you don't have problems, you don't have opportunities.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature

I am always looking to the future of making things.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

The game's evolving quickly, man, and somebody's gotta be trying some new stuff.

I always like to tweak things and push things forward.

We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do.

It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.

Play on the frontiers of technology. Be ahead of the tomorrows.

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.