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
We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda… — 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
The chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were so large, and were moving so fast, that each hit Jupiter with at least the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most… — 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
Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Since life on Earth is, so far, the only known example of life in the universe, our dilemma may simply be that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The universe for me was other planets and other star systems and other galaxies. I enjoyed tracking it, but it had no… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth… — 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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