While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe -… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If an artist is reaching for the universe as a source of creative muse, then I'm there. I'm gonna say, "Yeah. Here's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You know, there's black holes and what - could there be wormholes? Could - might there be a multi-verse? These are all… — 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
“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 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
“In the twentieth century, astrophysicists in the United States discovered galaxies, the expanding of the universe, the nature of supernovas, quasars, black… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered… — 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
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in… — 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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