Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job. — 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
As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have… — 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
I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the… — 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
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
“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
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
![“Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3ad/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_ancestor_three-and-a-half-million-years-ago-our-a_369478.jpg)
![“So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it works and what was discovered and why it matters, but combines that with stunning visualizations of the cosmos. This has the chance of affecting you intellectually and…” quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4d/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_astronomy_so-this-show-cosmos-does-not-only-operat_1755299.jpg)
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