WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it. — 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
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
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
“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
If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to… — 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
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
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
“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 scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Had Earth been much closer to the Sun, the oceans would have evaporated. Had Earth been much farther away, the oceans would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The four most common chemically active elements in the universe—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen—are the four most common elements of life on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
'Cause a musician, you can't tell me, "I've got this message I want share with the public," and it's three-and-a-half minutes long.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we’re all… — 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
![“I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e69/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_broadway_i-can-tell-you-that-in-my-modern-life-i_2199529.png)
