Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Collectively, these findings tell us it’s conceivable that life began on Mars and later seeded life on Earth, a process known as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to… — 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
Because we all just function, the rest of us, just go to work and come home; artists make life bearable. They give… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans.… — 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
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 problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“At least once a week, if not once a day, we might each ponder what cosmic truths lie undiscovered before us, perhaps… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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
Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“How do we change the way science is taught? Ask anybody how many teachers truly made a difference in their life, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would… — 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
The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing. — 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
Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“(An artist coworker of mine once asked whether alien life forms from Europa would be called Europeans. The absence of any other… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it… — 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