I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they… — 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I believe that the manned space program can engage the public by advancing the space frontier. Every next mission takes you farther… — 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
Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“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
There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained… — 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
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
If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Where did the concept of "without borders" come from? No one had that concept until you saw Earth from space, illustrated not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to… — 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
“In the beginning, nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on… — 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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