1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that’s where we’ll end up.

I’m not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That’s a waste of everybody’s time.

Three quarks for Muster Mark!” One thing quarks do have going for them: all their names are simple – something chemists, biologists, and especially geologists seem incapable of achieving when naming their own stuff.

People generally don’t recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Seventy percent of Earth’s surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit either the ocean or desolate regions on Earth’s surface. So why do movie meteors have such good aim?

Why can’t Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn’t exist then they don’t have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can’t read cursive.

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody’s easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

We are seeing these nearby stars, not as they are at the present moment, but as they were 4 years ago.

I’m a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky.