Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

The important thing is to never stop questioning. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

If you're interested in something, do some more research and don't be afraid to ask questions. At the very worst you're going to know more than you did at the start of the day.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

Be a sponge. Curiosity is life. Assumption is death. Look around.

I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someone's universe.

My skepticism is strong, but my curiosity is stronger.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

It is frequently more rewarding merely to ask pertinent questions. It may get someone to go and look for an answer.

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.