“For reasons I have yet to understand, many people don’t like chemicals, which might explain the perennial movement to rid foods of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping. — 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
Anyone who has wrestled knows that it's the hardest thing in the world to do. Anyone who says something else is the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Filling out the entire electromagnetic spectrum, in order of low-energy and low-frequency to high-energy and high-frequency, we have: radio waves, micro waves,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Shortly before, during, and after the strong and electroweak forces parted company, the universe was a seething soup of quarks, leptons, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Earth has also tidally locked the Moon, leaving it with identical periods of rotation on its axis and revolution around Earth. Wherever… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“This general flattening of objects that rotate is why Earth’s pole-to-pole diameter is smaller than its diameter at the equator. Not by… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There’s no doubt about it: more varieties of carbon-based molecules exist than all other kinds of molecules combined.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Using freshman level calculus you can show that the one and only shape that has the smallest surface area for an enclosed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big. — 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