I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People say, oh we just need charismatic leaders to continue on to Mars. Now we've gone to the moon, of course Mars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money?… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If NASA were advancing a space frontier there would be challenges you've never seen before. You have to be creative and you… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress… — 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
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We only went to the moon for military reasons. The space enthusiasts of the day kept saying, "Oh, we're on the moon;… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, "If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To view space as, "Well, let's go to Mars now," or "Let's do this now," maybe we should rethink of space as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar… — 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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