There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to… — 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
![“Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars. … The cosmos is also within us…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7c7/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_astronomy_stars-die-and-reborn-they-get-so-hot-tha_811740.jpg)
