1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who only know what to think.

If aliens ever give us a call, the Chinese will be the first to know.

We’re an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well.

And extracting one molecule’s signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler’s voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It’s hard, but you can do it.

You don’t need to be a scientist to know Earth’s age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths.

The world has persisted many a long year, having once been set going in the appropriate motions. From these everything else follows.

When you are 31 years, 7 months, 9 hours, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds old, you’ve lived your billionth second.

Cosmologists have plenty of ego. How could you not when your job is to deduce what brought the universe into existence?

And behold the greatest mystery of them all: an unopened can of diet Pepsi floats in water while an unopened can of regular Pepsi sinks.