I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Anyone who has wrestled knows that it's the hardest thing in the world to do. Anyone who says something else is the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all… — 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
The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one… — 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
When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into… — 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
![“Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ad/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_ancestor_three-and-a-half-million-years-ago-our-a_369478.jpg)
![“George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is the God who named the stars. The problem is: two-thirds of all stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. That would confound…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/082/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_all-stars_george-bush-within-a-week-of-this-the-9_1566914.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)
