Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes

For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

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 child is a scientist.

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.