Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia University. From 1991 to 1994, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 2014, he hosted the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a successor to Carl Sagan’s 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences awarded Tyson the Public Welfare Medal in 2015 for his extraordinary role in exciting the public about the wonders of science. May these Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “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 Tyson
2. “Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That’s a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don’t know what you’re doing.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
3. “The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
4. “The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
5. “Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
6. “Humans aren’t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
7. “Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
8. “Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I’m small but I’m also big. I’m big because I’m connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
9. “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
10. “Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
11. “Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?” Neil deGrasse Tyson
12. “There are more molecules of water in a cup of water than cups of water in all the world’s oceans. This means that some molecules in every cup of water you drink passed through the kidneys of Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Abe Lincoln or any other historical person of your choosing. Same goes for air: There are more molecules of air in a single breath of air than there are breaths of air in Earth’s entire atmosphere. Therefore, some molecules of air you inhale passed through the lungs of Billy the Kid, Joan of Arc, Beethoven, Socrates or any other historical person of your choosing.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
13. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
14. “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
15. “I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I’m doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world — the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
16. “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 Tyson
17. “Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.” Neil deGrasse
18. “Rational thoughts never drive people’s creativity the way emotions do.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
19. “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
20. “There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
21. “My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
22. “Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
23. “Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
24. “The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
25. “Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
26. “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 Tyson
27. “When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
28. “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
29. “Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
30. “Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
31. “Scientific inquiry shouldn’t stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
32. “When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
33. “Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
34. “There’s no shame in admitting what you don’t know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.” Neil deGrasse Tyson
35. “Every living thing is a masterpiece.”Neil deGrasse Tyson
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