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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Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.

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. Once you investigate that, you find out that Disney's dog Pluto was sketched the sa...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The need to create a new taxonomy that isn't just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent that something will come out of it. I'm sure of it, even if it's not tomorrow.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct -- if God works in mysterious ways, that way is mysteriously genocidal.

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