Neil DeGrasse Tyson Quotes
Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642
There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.
No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.
For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now.
Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.
The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'
The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.
I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.
On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)
When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.
In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.
If you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else.
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.
Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky.
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive
If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.
When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.
With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.
Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian.
If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.