1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn’t. That’s what I fear. I don’t fear death.

No, it’s not Pluto. Get over it.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they’re looking at, then they’re not a research scientist.

Swiss-American astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky.

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.

If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there’ll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.

No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there’s an influence that’s not just spinoff.

You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.