“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.” — 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's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The universe for me was other planets and other star systems and other galaxies. I enjoyed tracking it, but it had no… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are… — 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
I wake up and I go to work. I don't look for the cup of coffee. The universe is enough of a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the… — 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
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
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
A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions 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
I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other… — 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
The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe? — 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
Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe. — 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
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
If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it. — 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
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
“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true… — 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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
