You Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist'…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought?…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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

Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson