To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The universe for me was other planets and other star systems and other galaxies. I enjoyed tracking it, but it had no… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth… — 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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