“If you must know, the brightest star in the nighttime sky is Sirius, the Dog Star.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before… — 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
“People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There are people, who walk around every day, asserting that we are alone in this cosmos. They simply have no concept of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We are seeing these nearby stars, not as they are at the present moment, but as they were 4 years ago” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In an undistinguished part of the universe (the outskirts of the Virgo Supercluster), in an undistinguished galaxy (the Milky Way), in an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues… — 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
Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, no matter how confident we are in our observations, our experiments, our data, or our theories,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“the astronomy embodied in Stonehenge is not fundamentally deeper than what can be discovered with a stick in the ground. Perhaps these… — 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
Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass… — 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
“Like the microscopic strands of DNA that predetermine the identity of a macroscopic species and the unique propertires of its members, the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and… — 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
“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
“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
“The stars of the Milky Way galaxy trace a big, flat circle. With a diameter-to-thickness ratio of one thousand to one, our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“For the first billion years, the universe continued to expand and cool as matter gravitated into the massive concentrations we call galaxies.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Let's grant that the stars are scattered through space, hither and yon. But how hither, and how yon? To the unaided eye… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Again and again across the centuries, cosmic discoveries have demoted our self-image. Earth was once assumed to be astronomically unique, until astronomers… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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