“Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“It is the knowledge that I'm going to die that creates the focus that I bring to being alive; the urgency of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a… — 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
“What we know is that the matter we have come to love in the universe—the stuff of stars, planets, and life—is only… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Most places in the universe will kill life instantly—instantly! People say “Oh, the forces of nature are just right for life.” Excuse… — 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If the rocky ejecta from an impact hails from a planet with life, then microscopic fauna could have stowed away in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Other unrelenting skeptics might declare that “seeing is believing”—an approach to life that works well in many endeavors, including mechanical engineering, fishing,… — 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
“Who gets to celebrate this cosmic view in life? Not the migrant farmworker. Not the sweatshop worker. Certainly not the homeless person… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“You could also ask who’s in charge. Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most intelligent and accomplished species; we’re… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“But who gets to think that way? Who gets to celebrate this cosmic view of life? Not the migrant farm worker. Not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionary and… — 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
“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to… — 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
“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences. — 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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