In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. — 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
I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,'… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the… — 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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