“Without a doubt, Einstein’s greatest blunder was having declared that lambda was his greatest blunder.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The leptons most familiar to the non-physicist are the electron and perhaps the neutrino; and the most familiar quarks are . .… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“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 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“helium became the first and only element in the chemist’s Periodic Table to be discovered someplace other than Earth. Okay,” — 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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
