“When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values gra...” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Quote

“When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.”

“Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.”

“Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.”

“The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.”

“While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.”

“It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.”

“Здесь я повторю Антонио Серра, который лет через после тезисов Лютера написал примерно так: «Если вы хотите понять, какой из Двух посмотрите городов богаче, на количество профессий, которыми владеют его жители: чем больше профессий, тем богаче город».”

“On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.”

“It is a reminder of our irrelevant smallness and accidental existence in the universe, a glimpse of something violently outside the bounds of human existence, as close as you can get to seeing God.”

“Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.”

“Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.”

“We can finally transition from living in a dreadful state of denial and delusion to living in a wonderfully TRANSFORMED STATE of freedom from all the dishonesty and delusion that made human life so fraudulent, mad, destructive and chaotic.”