Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it.

The true contrast between science and myth is more nearly touched when we say that science alone is capable of verification.

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

A scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down. down. Amen! If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it.

The great tragedy of Science --- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact

Science must begin with myths and with the criticism of myth.

You can't manage science.... There are some things that you have to do based on the facts regardless of your ideology.

Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

I think science is real.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Science is simply a powerful way of understanding what's real and what isn't, what's true and what's not. It can help us determine what works, what doesn't, for whom, and under what circumstances.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.