Jesus Christ rose up from the tomb. Well, he's the son of God, and now he's like God's spirit at this point.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Astrophysicists perfected navigation. We perfected all these things that matter to the power of nations manifest on the world stage. So we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I as an astrophysicist, see the universe, feel the universe, smell the universe every day. Every day. And for people to say,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because… — 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
Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space -… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 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
Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
By the way, how much does NASA cost? It's half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? ... The most… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at… — 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
When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're… — 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
We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not… — 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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