Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes

I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?

A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

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

If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?

One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle.

I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.

The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.

You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

How much would you pay...for the Universe?

The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

Only when you question does society move or advance at all.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.

It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

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 combined.

No one is dumb who is curious.

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.

I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly.

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

We went to the moon and discovered Earth.

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.

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

America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became big, green, and ugly.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.

We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.

Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.