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
If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts… — 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