Quote

I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can't find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
Actor
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Cosmologist
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Physicist
Science Communicator
Science Writer
Teacher
Trekkie
The Bronx
New York City
Neil Tyson
Like
Roles
Levels
Overrated
Reason
Wanna
Find
Require
Looks
Model
Something
Models
Think
Role
Thinking
Level

More quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Image
After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that. I think...
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
You know, dark matter matters.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
There are two ways you can receive energy from your environment: One is molecules bumping against you. That's the air. The other is radiative energy. That's what you're feeling from the sun. When they say Get out of the sun, out of the heat, the air is the same temperature it's just you're exposed to sunlight.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Image
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
Neil deGrasse Tyson