Neil deGrasse Tyson Scientist Quotations

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.

I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly.

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