Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson‘s response on Reddit when asked “What can you tell a young man looking for motivation in life itself?”

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem. Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes. We know when and where they start. We know what drives them. We know what mitigates their destructive power. And anyone who has studied global warming can tell you what makes them worse. The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the nature of the universe from the statements and philosophies contained in religious writings…. Had any of these efforts worked, science and religion today might be one and the same. But they are not.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don’t have an issue with what you do in the church, but I’m going to be up in your face if you’re going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they’ve got to teach what you’re teaching in your Sunday school. Because that’s when we’re going to fight.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

[video] Neil deGrasse Tyson: Atheist or Agnostic?

 

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson claims the title “scientist” above all other “ists.” And yet, he says he is “constantly claimed by atheists.” So where does he stand? ”

Neil deGrasse, widely claimed by atheists, is actually an agnostic.”