Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.


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Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Holly...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Science is not just about seeing, it’s about measuring, preferably with something that’s not you...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about w...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illi...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we loo...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all thes...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific dis...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do bes...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to s...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
There is a fundamental reason why we look at the sky with wonder and longing—for the same reason t...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
You could also ask who’s in charge. Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay d...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a gal...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. W...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Who gets to celebrate this cosmic view of life? Not the migrant farmworker. Not the sweatshop worker...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got ca...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, ar...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent for...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No ques...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic trut...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded th...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for you...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter,...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or w...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot'...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attach...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it wo...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off sw...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We'...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone e...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seei...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don&...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON