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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It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make of it just so we can believe we understand what's going on.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - o...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicat...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag their ears so they're always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we'll know...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson

All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.

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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