Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

About Neil deGrasse Tyson:

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.
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For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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.'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist' I am is a scientist, all right?' I don't associate with movements. I'm not an 'ism.' I just - I think for myself.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomor...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It's bone dry today. Something bad happened there as wel...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put u...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Author Bio

  • NameNeil deGrasse Tyson
  • DescriptionAmerican astrophysicist and science communicator
  • BornOctober 5, 1958
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAstrophysicist; Science Writer; Teacher; Popularizer Of Science; Cosmologist