The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our planet has been around only for four and a half billion years. Let's imagine a planet that has life on it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when… — 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
“The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away,… — 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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