In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In astrophysics, we care about how matter, motion and energy manifest in objects and phenomenon in the universe. Stars are born. They… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That the north star is the brightest in the night sky. I'd guess about 9 out of 10 people think this. But… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of… — 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 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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