--- title: "11 Percent Quotes By Neil deGrasse Tyson" description: "11 Percent quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Plus more from Neil deGrasse Tyson and more Percent sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_known_95-96-percent-of-all-that-drives-the-uni_2255573.png" --- > [95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/95-96-percent-of-all-that-drives-the-universe-has-no-known-origin/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_known_95-96-percent-of-all-that-drives-the-uni_2255573.png) > [85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/85-percent-of-the-gravity-of-the-universe-has-a-point-of-origin-about/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebe/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_gravity_85-percent-of-the-gravity-of-the-univers_1697457.png) > [He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide… Yes, 86…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/he-invited-people-to-sign-a-petition-that-demanded-either-strict/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/657/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_bans_he-invited-people-to-sign-a-petition-tha_956404.png) > [I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-m-baffled-all-the-time-we-don-t-know-what-s-driving-96-of-the/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ed/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_about_i-m-baffled-all-the-time-we-don-t-know-w_2329281.png) > [“In our own solar system, for example, everything that is not the Sun adds up to less than one fifth of one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/in-our-own-solar-system-for-example-everything-that-is-not-the-sun/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_percent_in-our-own-solar-system-for-example-ever_1093786.png) > [Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/let-s-say-intelligence-is-your-ability-to-compose-poetry-symphonies/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd2/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_ability_let-s-say-intelligence-is-your-ability-t_1069401.jpg) > [Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/seventy-percent-of-earth-s-surface-is-water-and-over-99-percent-is/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13e/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_aim_seventy-percent-of-earth-s-surface-is-wa_1000794.png) > ['As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/as-a-fraction-of-your-tax-dollar-today-what-is-the-total-cost-of-all/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9f/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_answers_as-a-fraction-of-your-tax-dollar-today-w_740736.jpg) > [In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/in-terms-of-the-most-astonishing-fact-about-which-we-know-nothing/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffd/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_and-love_in-terms-of-the-most-astonishing-fact-ab_243778.png) > [I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-want-to-create-the-airplane-that-flies-in-the-rarified-atmosphere/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36f/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_airplane_i-want-to-create-the-airplane-that-flies_2900050.jpg) > [Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/everything-we-do-understand-about-the-universe-the-periodic-table-of/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd0/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_biology_everything-we-do-understand-about-the-un_3166542.jpg) ## Other authors on Percent ## More by Neil deGrasse Tyson > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-don-t-want-to-go-into-space-because-of-war-i-think-we-would-if-it/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/quantum-physics-fluctuates-all-the-time-but-now-the-fluctuations-are/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/in-the-movie-the-stars-above-the-ship-bear-no-correspondence-to-any/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-pacific-is-the-best-toilet-for-satellites/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/informed-ignorance-provides-the-natural-state-of-mind-for-research/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/if-you-seek-only-easy-problems-to-solve-then-ultimately-there-ll-be/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-caricature-of-science-is-that-we-hold-tight-to-the-theories-we/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/new-generations-of-humans-inherit-the-acquired-discoveries-of/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 natural resources…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/i-ve-said-multiple-times-that-the-world-s-first-trillionaire-is-going/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [ They \[scientists of centuries past\] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/they-scientists-of-centuries-past-call-on-god-only-from-the-lonely/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/we-explore-our-environment-more-than-we-are-compelled-to-utter-poetry/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/you-can-t-have-people-making-decisions-about-the-future-of-the-world/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/science-surrounds-you-it-s-not-something-that-you-can-step-aside-step/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/the-idea-that-god-resides-in-the-unknown-is-what-philosophers-call/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/everybody-s-got-money-for-vacation-time-look-at-how-much-we-all-spend/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/percent/neil-degrasse-tyson/#itemlist", "name": "11 Percent Quotes By Neil deGrasse Tyson", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Neil deGrasse Tyson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/95-96-percent-of-all-that-drives-the-universe-has-no-known-origin/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_known_95-96-percent-of-all-that-drives-the-uni_2255573.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_known_95-96-percent-of-all-that-drives-the-uni_2255573.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05a/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_known_95-96-percent-of-all-that-drives-the-uni_2255573.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Neil deGrasse Tyson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/85-percent-of-the-gravity-of-the-universe-has-a-point-of-origin-about/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebe/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_gravity_85-percent-of-the-gravity-of-the-univers_1697457.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebe/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_gravity_85-percent-of-the-gravity-of-the-univers_1697457.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebe/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_gravity_85-percent-of-the-gravity-of-the-univers_1697457.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide… Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. 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