“You can picture the universe as an enormous loaf of raisin bread rising in the oven” — 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
“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us. That” — 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
“Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads 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… — 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
“I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind,… — 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
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It would be amazing if something completely spiritual sounding happened. Oh, my gosh! We'd be all over it. Because it's something new… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are photons that have been traveling for 30,000 years, and I'm... snatching them from this journey and planting them into my… — 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
If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe. — 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
The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of… — 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
The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we… — 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
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