“I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In our own solar system, for example, everything that is not the Sun adds up to less than one fifth of one… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system's birth. Occasionally, some of them… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“With only one proton in its nucleus, hydrogen is the lightest and simplest element, made entirely during the big bang. Out of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The need to create a new taxonomy that isn't just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Earth’s Moon is about 1/ 400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/ 400th as far from us, making… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“When Herschel saw Flamsteed’s “star” drift against the background stars, he announced—operating under the unwitting assumption that planets were not on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If the rocky ejecta from an impact hails from a planet with life, then microscopic fauna could have stowed away in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Newton's laws specifically state that, while the gravity of a planet gets weaker and weaker the farthest from it you travel, there… — 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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