By the way, how much does NASA cost? It's half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? ... The most… — 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
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of… — 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
Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got… — 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
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
Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what… — 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
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
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
The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as… — 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
So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it… — 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
I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and… — 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 universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe? — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to… — 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
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