“The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific… — 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
We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“With only one proton in its nucleus, hydrogen is the lightest and simplest element, made entirely during the big bang. Out of… — 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
“What we do know, and what we can assert without further hesitation, is that the universe had a beginning. The universe continues… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Only three of the naturally occurring elements were manufactured in the big bang. The rest were forged in the high-temperature hearts and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Curious how much gas lurks among the stars in galaxies? Radio telescopes do that best. There is no knowledge of the cosmic… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In our profession, we tend to name things exactly as we see them. Big red stars we call red giants. Small white… — 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
