Theory Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The ordinary photon is a member of the boson family.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You know, dark matter matters.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“dark matter is our frenemy.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Without a doubt, Einstein’s greatest blunder was having declared that lambda was his greatest blunder.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe?…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“with the weak force controlling radioactive decay, the strong force binding the atomic nucleus, the electromagnetic force binding molecules, and gravity binding…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The leptons most familiar to the non-physicist are the electron and perhaps the neutrino; and the most familiar quarks are . .…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Quarks are quirky beasts. Unlike protons, each with an electric charge of +1, and electrons, with a charge of –1, quarks have…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The German physicist Max Planck, after whom these unimaginably small quantities are named, introduced the idea of quantized energy in 1900 and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe -…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You know, there's black holes and what - could there be wormholes? Could - might there be a multi-verse? These are all…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Shortly before, during, and after the strong and electroweak forces parted company, the universe was a seething soup of quarks, leptons, and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Another class of universal truths is the conservation laws, where the amount of some measured quantity remains unchanged no matter what. The…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Along with osmium and platinum, iridium is one of the three heaviest (densest) elements on the Table—two cubic feet of it weighs…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Knowledge of physical laws can, in some cases, give you the confidence to confront surly people. A few years ago I was…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“At the end of the day, no matter how confident we are in our observations, our experiments, our data, or our theories,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

“A modern example of this stunning knowledge of nature that Einstein has gifted us, comes from 2016, when gravitational waves were discovered…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“helium became the first and only element in the chemist’s Periodic Table to be discovered someplace other than Earth. Okay,”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson