Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Only three of the naturally occurring elements were manufactured in the big bang. The rest were forged in the high-temperature hearts and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos. — 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
“We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us. That” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Filling out the entire electromagnetic spectrum, in order of low-energy and low-frequency to high-energy and high-frequency, we have: radio waves, micro waves,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Shortly before, during, and after the strong and electroweak forces parted company, the universe was a seething soup of quarks, leptons, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In an undistinguished part of the universe (the outskirts of the Virgo Supercluster), in an undistinguished galaxy (the Milky Way), in an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Using freshman level calculus you can show that the one and only shape that has the smallest surface area for an enclosed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There's a variation of the ever popular multiverse idea in which the multiple universes that comprise it are not separate universes entirely,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch… — 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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