Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

Asking questions is the first way to begin change.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.

All human progress is preceded by new questions

No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.

I hope many of you will be people that question why things are and why we have to do them the way we have always done them. I hope you will take some risks, exert some real leadership on issues, and if you will, dance along the edge of the roof as you continue for life.

Once we go beyond this and start to open up and question and experience things in a different way, we can move forward.

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Advancing waves of other people’s progress sweep over the unchanging man and wash him out.

We stand today at the edge of a new frontier—the frontier of the 1960's.

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

One who accepts the general ideas of his time gets along smoothest, but he does least for progress.

Please, join the modern world.

Every time you create something new, there should be questions. And to me, that's a sign that you've actually done something that is transformative.