The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“(An artist coworker of mine once asked whether alien life forms from Europa would be called Europeans. The absence of any other… — 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
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
I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to… — 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
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
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
When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate… — 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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