Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes & Sayings (Page 12)

“I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.”

“The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'”

“If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.”

“The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.”

“There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.”

“Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.”

“As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.”

“Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.”

“Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.”

“For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.”