Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Think
  • Science
  • Loved

• I'm very interested in science.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Science
  • Very
  • Interested

• Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Science
  • Internet
  • Modern

• As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Science
  • Senior
  • Science fiction

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Different
  • Political
  • Science

• I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Science
  • You
  • Know

• We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • Science
  • Fiction

• Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • People
  • Mind
  • Science

• Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Science

• I feel like science and art are cousins.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Art
  • Science
  • Cousins

• I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • People
  • Science
  • Education

• There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • Science
  • Powerful
  • Thoughts

• Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

  

  Charles Vest
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in his character, and in his discoveries,-a vivid imagination sketching out new tracts in regions unexplored, for the judgement to select those leading to the recesses of abstract truth.

  

  Davies Gilbert
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Circumstances

• But the universe wasn't really unfair, she thought, and her mouth quirked. It just didn't give much of a damn one way or the other.

  

  David Weber
  • She
  • Universe

• I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

  

  Paulo Costanzo

• Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Science