We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 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 don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share
