The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day. — 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
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids. — 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
Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have… — 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let's create a World's Fair that captures everybody's visions of tomorrow together and let's celebrate that vision. Let's have articles on it… — 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
You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Astrophysicists perfected navigation. We perfected all these things that matter to the power of nations manifest on the world stage. So we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions — 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