Earth Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Earth’s oceans will boil away about a billion years”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Between 1 and 10 quadrillion ants live on (and in) Earth,”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We went to the moon and discovered Earth.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system's birth. Occasionally, some of them…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In astrophysics, we care about how matter, motion and energy manifest in objects and phenomenon in the universe. Stars are born. They…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The one we call Earth formed in a kind of Goldilocks zone around the Sun, where oceans remain largely in liquid form.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Where did the concept of "without borders" come from? No one had that concept until you saw Earth from space, illustrated not…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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