It’s safe to say that Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the smartest men on the planet. The astrophysicist holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Texas, and Columbia University.
Along with making science more practical and fun, Tyson has a strong wit and often provokes change with his words.
Check out 10 powerful quotes from Neil deGrasse Tyson.
1. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
2. “There are two kinds of people in the world — those who divide everybody into two kinds of people and those who don’t.”
3. “If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100-billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.”
4. “Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
5. “Apollo in 1969. Shuttle in 1981. Nothing in 2011. Our space program would look awesome to anyone living backward through time.”
6. “Principles of modern law assert that you’re innocent until proven guilty. Yet airport security is the exact opposite of this.”
7. “I think of space not as the final frontier but as the next frontier. Not as something to be conquered but to be explored.”
8. “Just an observation: I’ve never, ever, ever, ever, ever, heard a female voice as the narrator of a movie trailer.”
9. “If scientists invented the legal system, eyewitness testimony would be inadmissible evidence.”
10. “Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.”
