If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It would be amazing if something completely spiritual sounding happened. Oh, my gosh! We'd be all over it. Because it's something new… — 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 universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all… — 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The greatest of people in society carve niches that represent the unique expression of their combinations of talents. If everyone had the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a… — 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
If NASA were advancing a space frontier there would be challenges you've never seen before. You have to be creative and you… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our planet has been around only for four and a half billion years. Let's imagine a planet that has life on it… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee’s. To such a species, our highest mental achievements… — 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
We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It would be great if we were on multiple planets, but I think that's unrealistic. Hawking says we have to be on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They… — 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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