Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes

All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

People like death and mayhem.

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

We need more science in the world. Train me.

On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.

It's my duty to enlighten people.

What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?

If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if the line of people does not know in advance the astronaut's name.

If I'm looking fit and I'm not, then I'm cheating.

I'm not hard to find. I'm all over the Internet.

The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.

You can get an Egg McMuffin all day; you just can't get the hamburger all day.

The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats.

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

Not everyone is going to like science as a subject.

Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.

Plenty of people get excited about the universe.

Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.

If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

This universe knows about me and my crops.

As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them.

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.

The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.

Evil or not, the recording industry kept Auto-Tune on the down-low. Cher's producer forced Auto-Tune to jump suddenly from one pitch to the next.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

When you innovate, the jobs can't go overseas because other countries haven't figured out how to do it yet.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.

With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."

Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it.

When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions.

Pop culture is the scaffold we all carry around with us.