It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We are seeing these nearby stars, not as they are at the present moment, but as they were 4 years ago” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on. — 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
In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes…… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Time to get cosmic. There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on any beach, more stars than seconds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There's a variation of the ever popular multiverse idea in which the multiple universes that comprise it are not separate universes entirely,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Many people are unhappy because there was some point in their past where there was some glory day, and as they get… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“the universe expands forever in every direction for all of time, taking on the shape of a saddle, in which initially parallel… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If that's how you want invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that is… — 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
![“Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand]…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1b6/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_ass_does-it-mean-if-you-don-t-understand-som_2207378.jpg)
![“They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b0/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_century_they-scientists-of-centuries-past-call-o_12921.jpg)
