Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes

Let's invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let's invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.

Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then there was some edge beyond which no one had explored.

I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.

Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab.

If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

I always wanted to be respected for my mind.

One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.

The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets.

Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests.

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support faith, everyone goes to it and points to it.

When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody.

I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

Miniaturization of electronics started by NASA's push became an entire consumer products industry. Now we're carrying the complete works of Beethoven on a lapel pin listening to it in headphones.

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

I as an astrophysicist, see the universe, feel the universe, smell the universe every day. Every day. And for people to say, I'm cool, I'm right here, it's all I need.

In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.

A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.

Enjoying science shouldn't be rocket science.

I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.

That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science.

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.

If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life.

Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.

If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

Science is not just a topic we can step around or ignore.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me.

I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with whatever everyone else does.

I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read.

No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.

I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread.

I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it.

If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters.

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home.