To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Ordinary matter is what we are all made of. It has gravity and interacts with light. Dark matter is a mysterious substance… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I grew up in New York City where there is no night sky. Nobody has a relationship with the sky, because, particularly… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“When something glows from being heated, it emits light in all parts of the spectrum, but will always peak somewhere. For household… — 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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