95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist… — 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
I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe?… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say… — 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
We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K… — 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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
