1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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.

The universe is knowable and what one need not apeal to mystical, magical forces to account for things.

There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace – a physicist is a trained problem solver.

We begin with the stars, then ascend up and away out to the galaxy, the universe, and beyond. What did Buzz Lightyear say in Toy Story? “To Infinity and Beyond!” It’s a big universe. I.

If you must know, the brightest star in the nighttime sky is Sirius, the Dog Star.

You need to live in a nation whose government values the search to understand humanity’s place in the universe.

You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it’s not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.

Once something is answered, then there’s another question. Hence the eternal quest.

The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual – even redemptive – but not religious. The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought, the large and the small. The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we’re told.