1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Earth’s oceans will boil away about a billion years.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they’ve beaten our top human chess champions.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.

If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you’d see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie.

Science is not just about seeing, it’s about measuring, preferably with something that’s not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain.

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.

Rational thoughts never drive people’s creativity the way emotions do.

Miniaturization of electronics started by NASA’s push became an entire consumer products industry. Now we’re carrying the complete works of Beethoven on a lapel pin listening to it in headphones.

I’d like – inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.