Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
">
Quotes.wiki
Quotes.wiki
  • Home
  • Tags
  • Authors
  • Contact Us
Neil deGrasse  Quotes
I’d ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I’d ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct — if God works in...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AtheismGodScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
IgnoranceKnowledgeReason
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DinosaursExtinctionFuture
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Space
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CitizenColbertCosmos
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
… there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
IgnoranceKnowledge
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
You could also ask who’s in charge. Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most intelligent and accomplished species; we’re in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BacteriaHostHumans
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That’s why my public focus...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Food-For-ThoughtScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstronomyCosmosScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstronomyCosmosNasa
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
InspirationalKnowledgeScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I’ll stay down here and get the data. But nobody’s ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody’s ever...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DiscoveryExplorationRobots
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefScienceTrue
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstronomyNasaNdt
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
LoveMeaningMotivation
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.No judgment implied. Just an observation.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstronomyCosmosScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
… informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
KnowledgeScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
DiscoveryExplorationIntellect
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefLabelsMovements
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to be one-fifth the mass of the Moon), thus disarming its protective force field....

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AliensAppleComputers
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
EnergyLifeSpirituality
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstronomyCosmosScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
It’s okay not to know all the answers. It’s better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s already there.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AnswersBeliefCertainty
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BiasScienceSkepticism
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
And the geek shall inherit the Earth.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BibleFunnyGeek
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Let’s grant that the stars are scattered through space, hither and yon. But how hither, and how yon? To the unaided eye the brightest stars are more than a hundred times brighter than the dimmest....

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstronomyPhysics
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth – the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstronomyAtomsLife
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if everybody thinks about tomorrow, then someday we can visit the sky together.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstronomyCosmosScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ChildrenEducation
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery—the frontier that drives the economies of the future—would be incalculable. I don’t want students who could...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
EducationIntellectIntelligent-Design
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AtheismScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
In the beginning, there was physics. “Physics” describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay of these characters in our cosmic drama underlies all biological and chemical phenomena....

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstrophysicsPhysicsScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CompassionInspirationInspirational
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstronomyCosmosScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah’s ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AmericaBig-BangBig-Bang-Theory
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don’t agree.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BeliefsEvidenceRationality
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
To learn that it’s easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Critical-ThinkingEducationMorality
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
vacation” means because what you’re doing is what you want to do and a vacation from that is anything but a vacation — that’s the state of mind of somebody who’s doing what others might...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BrillianceJobLife
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
CosmologyInspirationalPhilosophy
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Universe
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
BiographiesCultural-HistoryEducation
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street,...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AliensDifferenceDna
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
GalaxiesScienceStars
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
How do we change the way science is taught?Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in their life, and you never come up with more than the fingers on one hand. You remember...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
ScienceTeachers
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AtheismPhilosophyReligion
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstronomyNeil-Degrasse-TysonPhysics
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there’s any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AtheismReligionScience
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Some molecules – ammonia, carbon dioxide, water – show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
EarthIntelligenceLife
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Yes, Your Honor. Why did you say he was in possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine? That equals 1.7 grams. The ‘thousand’ cancels with the ‘milli-’ and you get 1.7 grams, which is less than...

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
AstrophysicistAstrophysicsEyewitness
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

—Neil deGrasse

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
InspirationalLifeWisdom
Facebooktwitterredditpinterestlinkedintumblr
  • Page 1 of 2
  • Next
  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy
  • About us

Copyright © 2017 - 2020 TR Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

Exercise your consumer rights by contacting us below Privacy Policy

[email protected]

Personalized advertisements

Turning this off will opt you out of personalized advertisements delivered from Google on this website.

CookiePro
Confirm
Popup Button popup close button