Today Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies…

— 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

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm revealing information to people. I'm not creating it. And to the extent that people embrace it, I think they're empowered by…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson