When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People...kids say, 'I want to do that when I grow up'. Because you want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go back into space for military reasons, but the economic driver still remains. And so it's a matter… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they… — 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
You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had… — 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
That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, "If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To view space as, "Well, let's go to Mars now," or "Let's do this now," maybe we should rethink of space as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. — 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 want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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
Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The miniaturization of electronics, which ultimately was driven by the marketplace, was started by NASA, because it costs money to get something… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not… — 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
