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God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ignorance, Atheism, Pockets
"Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science, Religion and the Universe". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. January 17, 2014.

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 Tyson
Ignorance, Knowledge, Humanity
"My Cancer Brings All the Crazies to the Yard" by Kevin Lankes, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2014.

Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moving, Ignorance, Mean
"The Moon, the Tides and why Neil DeGrasse Tyson is Colbert's God". "The Science Studio" with Roger Bingham, January 20, 2011.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ignorance, Humans, Knows

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ignorance, Knowing, Mind Blowing
Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.38, Prometheus Books

As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ignorance, Grows, Perimeter
Twitter post from Oct 24, 2012

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Philosophy, Ignorance, Intelligent
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ignorance, Vaccines, World

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ignorance, Vaccines, Intellectual

... 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 what is known and unknown in the cosmos.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Believe, Ignorance, People
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith (2005). “Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ignorance, Discovery, Imagination
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moving, Ignorance, Knowledge
"The Moon, the Tides and why Neil DeGrasse Tyson is Colbert's God". "The Science Studio" with Roger Bingham, thesciencenetwork.org. January 20, 2011.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Philosophy, Smart, Ignorance
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.361, W. W. Norton & Company

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Philosophy, Ignorance, Intelligent

There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to lead me off into a new place. The books don't represent an interest; they represent a source of my ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Book, Ignorance, Source
Source: bookriot.com

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