Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes

If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.

The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

All information is good, even when it is bad.

NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

The past is another planet.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.

There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.

I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

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

Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe

The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.

What's up with chicks and science?

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.

Words that make questions may not be questions at all.

Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity.