Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes
There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around.
When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon.
Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.
I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, "Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?"
So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.
Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.
The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.
I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.
It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.
There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.
No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things.
I wake up and I go to work. I don't look for the cup of coffee. The universe is enough of a draw for me - to awaken me and have me bound out of bed and go to my office.
Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.
Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.
If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles.
Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.
That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.
When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.
The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.
If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person’s body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.
The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.
The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them
We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.
People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.
I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.
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
... and I submit to you, that science, scientific discovery, especially cosmic discovery, does not become mainstream until the artist embraces the fruits of those discoveries.
When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.
To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
If the universe is anything, it should be fun.
Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.
I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.
Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.
The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.
A bullet fired level from a gun will hit ground at same time as a bullet dropped from the same height. Do the Physics.
In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future.
I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.
I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.