Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Myself
  • Stage
  • Off

• I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • God
  • Movie
  • Want

• I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Great
  • Book

• I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Anonymity

• The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Good
  • Job
  • City

• Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • May
  • Desire
  • Possible

• Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Weird

• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Spirit
  • Genius
  • Enthusiasm

• One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.

  

  Jack Valenti

• A poem is sort of an onion of contexts, and you can no more locate any of the important meanings exclusively in a part than you can locate a relation in one of its terms. The significance of a part may be greatly modified or even in extreme cases completely reversed by later and larger parts and by the whole.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Important
  • May

• Men are always the same. Fear makes them cruel.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Fear

• Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Real

• Chapter Six, The Question of Identity

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Question
  • Identity

• By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Strong
  • Stock

• I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I feel a responsibility to try and give back. I see young people out there who are trained, and any way I can help them and give them an opportunity is gratifying.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Faith
  • Attention

• The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • You
  • Attention

• In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.

  

  Nevill Francis Mott
  • God
  • Explanation
  • Scientific

• Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

  

  Moliere
  • Want
  • Know
  • Desire

• If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson