I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.' — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We are seeing these nearby stars, not as they are at the present moment, but as they were 4 years ago” — 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
It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon. — 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
Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth… — 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
Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries… — 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
That the north star is the brightest in the night sky. I'd guess about 9 out of 10 people think this. But… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just… — 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
Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all… — 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
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
“Earth’s Moon is about 1/400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/400th as far from us, making the Sun… — 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Let's grant that the stars are scattered through space, hither and yon. But how hither, and how yon? To the unaided eye… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If you must know, the brightest star in the nighttime sky is Sirius, the Dog Star.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion. — 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
When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth… — 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
When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“One substantial hunk of junk led to the formation of the Moon. The unexpected scarcity of iron and other higher-mass elements in… — 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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