If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We don't know how to communicate meaningfully with chimpanzees. Assessing the effort we invest in trying to get big brained mammals to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“So, whether the aliens explore with chemistry or with radio waves, they might come to the same conclusion: a planet where there’s… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument from ignorance.” This is how it goes.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
