Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go back into space for military reasons, but the economic driver still remains. And so it's a matter… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid… We should measure our era by how many people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People...kids say, 'I want to do that when I grow up'. Because you want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone… — 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
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
People put clips of me up. There are quotes from me. I've written books, of course. I'm on Twitter. There are dozens… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes…… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
