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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

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

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

The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

... 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

If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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

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

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

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

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