Mind Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some air you inhale was exhaled by Cleopatra.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I always wanted to be respected for my mind.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

when I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In astrophysics, we care about how matter, motion and energy manifest in objects and phenomenon in the universe. Stars are born. They…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Anyone who has wrestled knows that it's the hardest thing in the world to do. Anyone who says something else is the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is not just 'Here are some facts, learn that'. There's a thread through these stories that, if you know how to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm revealing information to people. I'm not creating it. And to the extent that people embrace it, I think they're empowered by…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson