16 Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes That'll Inspire You To Continue Learning, Even After Your Graduation Date

16 quotes

"It's the inspired student that continues to learn on their own. That's what separates the real achievers in the world from those who pedal along, finishing assignments."

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, cnn.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, Education, School

“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore — in part because it's fun to do. But there's a far nobler reason. The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and l…”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, haydenplanetarium.org

Tagged: Science, Facts, planet, Earth, Life

“I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Ameri…”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, haydenplanetarium.org

Tagged: Science, Facts, planet, Earth, Energy

“I am trying to convince people — not only the public, but lawmakers and people in power — that investing in the frontier of science, however remote it may seem in its relevance to what you're doing today, is a way of stockpiling the seed corns of future harvests of this nation.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, youtube.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, planet, Earth, travel

“It's the inspired student that continues to learn on their own. That's what separates the real achievers in the world from those who pedal along, finishing assignments.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, sciencealert.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, Students, Assignments

“Knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, haydenplanetarium.org

Tagged: Science, Facts, Knowledge, Important

“Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, businessinsider.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, Knowledge, Creativity, expression

“Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on ‘Big Bang Theory’ lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, Funny, Big Bang Theory, Universe

“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, Encouragement, Success, Failure

“If aliens did visit us, I’d be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, Aliens, Fossil Fuels

“The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to…”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, en.wikiquote.org

Tagged: Science, Facts, Art, Creativity, Schooling

“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that w…”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, huffingtonpost.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, Universe, Cosmos, Life

“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, youtube.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, Life, Growing Up, Children

“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, Life, Thought, Thinking

“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, youtube.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, Universe, Sense, Understanding

“Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, reddit.com

Tagged: Science, Facts, Understanding, Knowledge, Growing Up