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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Believe, Science, Bad Ass
Twitter post from Jun 14, 2013

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Things In Life, Ideas
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.305, W. W. Norton & Company

We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious, Science, People
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, People, Water
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars, Home, Science

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 Tyson
Atheist, Science, Atheism

UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Energy, Molecules

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Spiritual, Religious, Science

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Inspirational, Dream, Science
Twitter post from Aug 04, 2012

A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Common Sense, Brain
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.135, W. W. Norton & Company

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Lonely, Religious, Science
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.353, W. W. Norton & Company

I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious, Believe, Science
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2000). “The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, Doubleday Books

We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars, Science, Clouds

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious, Science, People
Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.183, Prometheus Books

If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no predictive power, and you are at a loss to understand the principles behind most of the fundamental interconnections of nature.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious, Science, Loss

Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Wave, Genuine

Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Two, People

Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious, Science, Looks

If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Normal, Rooms

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 Tyson
Atheist, Science, Religion

While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only is Earth not in the center of the solar system, but the solar system is not in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is not in the center of the universe, and it may come to pass that our universe is just one of many that comprise a multiverse. And in case you're one of those people who thinks that the edge may be a special place, we are not at the edge of anything either.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Thinking, Guarantees That

On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Math, Science, Air
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars, Science, Blood

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Data, Five Senses

The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real value comes about when it's time to distinguish reality from everything else. And to be scientifically literate is to be trained in what it is, to recognize your own frailty as a data-taking device.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Real, Science, Ipods

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