Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program. — 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
Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth… — 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
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
“If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go back into space for military reasons, but the economic driver still remains. And so it's a matter… — 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
We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid… We should measure our era by how many people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“While most branches of science have ascended in this era, the field of astrophysics persistently rises to the top. I think I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To view space as, "Well, let's go to Mars now," or "Let's do this now," maybe we should rethink of space as… — 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
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
I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If NASA were advancing a space frontier there would be challenges you've never seen before. You have to be creative and you… — 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
'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
“Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because… — 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
No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“To govern a society shared by people of emotion, people of reason, and everybody in between—as well as people who think their… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
By the way, how much does NASA cost? It's half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? ... The most… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take… — 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
It would be great if we were on multiple planets, but I think that's unrealistic. Hawking says we have to be on… — 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
NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because… — 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
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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
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