{"author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson","total_quotes":159,"quotes":[{"text":"People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["america","big-bang","big-bang-theory","church-and-state","creation","creationism","dinosaurs","education","evolution","first-amendment","freedom","freedom-of-religion","intelligent-design","letters","literacy","new-jersey","new-york-times","noah-s-ark","religion","science","scientific-literacy","teachers","teaching"],"id":533,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["energy","life","spirituality"],"id":9920,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["thinking","brain","plan "],"id":16858,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only is Earth not in the center of the solar system, but the solar system is not in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is not in the center of the universe, and it may come to pass that our universe is just one of many that comprise a multiverse. And in case you're one of those people who thinks that the edge may be a special place, we are not at the edge of anything either.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["physics","science","universe"],"id":20331,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"If you ask people where they're from, they will typically say the name of the city where they were born, or perhaps the place on Earth's surface where they spent their formative years. Nothing wrong with that. But an astrochemically richer answer might be, 'I hail from the explosive jetsam of a multitude of high-mass stars that died more than 5 billion years ago.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["astrophysics","science","stars"],"id":20910,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["challenges","animal "],"id":26278,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["galaxies","science","stars","universe"],"id":26354,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["universe"],"id":28627,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["congratulations","encourage","encouraging","succeed","success"],"id":28745,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"},{"text":"One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.","author":"Neil deGrasse Tyson","tags":["time","parents","greatest "],"id":29406,"author_id":"Neil+deGrasse+Tyson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":159,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}