“Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If all mass has gravity, does all gravity have mass? We don’t know. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with the matter, and it’s… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“During the quark–lepton era the universe was dense enough for the average separation between unattached quarks to rival the separation between attached… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Ordinary matter is what we are all made of. It has gravity and interacts with light. Dark matter is a mysterious substance… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The most accurate measurements to date reveal dark energy as the most prominent thing in town, currently responsible for 68 percent of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“iridium is one of the three heaviest (densest) elements on the Table—two cubic feet of it weighs as much as a Buick,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In particular, a quantity known as the fine-structure constant, which controls the basic fingerprinting for every element, must have remained unchanged for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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