Time Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Photography is a form of time travel.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The past is another planet.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We are seeing these nearby stars, not as they are at the present moment, but as they were 4 years ago”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point…

— 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

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Time to get cosmic. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on any beach, more stars than seconds…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes……

— 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

You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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

“There's a variation of the ever popular multiverse idea in which the multiple universes that comprise it are not separate universes entirely,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Many people are unhappy because there was some point in their past where there was some glory day, and as they get…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing…

— 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

“the universe expands forever in every direction for all of time, taking on the shape of a saddle, in which initially parallel…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The cosmic perspective shows Earth to be a mote. But it’s a precious mote and, for the moment, it’s the only home…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson