1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

I can’t think that leaving Earth once is enough.

Can space exist in the absence of matter, if matter defines the edge of space?” Merlin.

I never got into ‘Star Wars.’ Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

There’s no shame in admitting what you don’t know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.

If aliens did visit us, I’d be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.

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

And the cosmos ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.

The closest anybody has come is to presume dark energy is a quantum effect – where the vacuum of space, instead of being empty, actually seethes with particles and their antimatter counterparts. They pop in and out of existence in pairs, and don’t last long enough to be measured.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That’s not science. You can get a parrot to do that.