Years Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups... Children are not the problem here...…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We only went to the moon for military reasons. The space enthusiasts of the day kept saying, "Oh, we're on the moon;…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were so large, and were moving so fast, that each hit Jupiter with at least the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are photons that have been traveling for 30,000 years, and I'm... snatching them from this journey and planting them into my…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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

Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

This past year, we received our second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Series. While we'd all like to win, I can say…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson