Moon Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

We went to the moon and discovered Earth.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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

“We are seeing these nearby stars, not as they are at the present moment, but as they were 4 years ago”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you must know, the brightest star in the nighttime sky is Sirius, the Dog Star.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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