“What we do know, and what we can assert without further hesitation, is that the universe had a beginning. The universe continues… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that end, we’re all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening,… — 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
We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You know, there's black holes and what - could there be wormholes? Could - might there be a multi-verse? These are all… — 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
I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If an artist is reaching for the universe as a source of creative muse, then I'm there. I'm gonna say, "Yeah. Here's… — 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… — 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
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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