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
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
We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we’re all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work… — 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