I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything! — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid… — 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
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Every day, I wake up and I say, 'Why... how... did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?' It's freaky to… — 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
Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large. — 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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