Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Matter tells space how to curve; space tells matter how to move.”†” — 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
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program. — 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
When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit. — 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
“Collectively, these findings tell us it’s conceivable that life began on Mars and later seeded life on Earth, a process known as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Merlin prefers to think of space as the regions between all the particles of all the atoms of the universe.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space -… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My interest in the space program has a certain purity to it because I recognize the romance of it but I was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then… — 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
The miniaturization of electronics, which ultimately was driven by the marketplace, was started by NASA, because it costs money to get something… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the… — 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
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
“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
“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
But my vote for Venus's most peculiar feature is the presence of craters that are all relatively young and uniformly distributed over… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument from ignorance.” This is how it goes.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century, astrophysicists in the United States discovered galaxies, the expanding of the universe, the nature of supernovas, quasars, black… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and… — 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
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Can space exist in the absence of matter, if matter defines the edge of space?” Merlin” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money?… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space. — 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
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