1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don’t even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them.

Humans aren’t as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ’reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.

There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.

I don’t even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, “Do you realize I’m an astrophysicist? Do you know what you’re doing here?”

We’ve come a long way since Herschel’s experiments with rays that were “unfit for vision,” empowering us to explore the universe for what it is, rather than for what it seems to be. Herschel would be proud. We achieved true cosmic vision only after seeing the unseeable: a dazzlingly rich collection of objects and phenomena across space and across time that we may now dream of in our philosophy.

Mars once was wet and fertile. It’s now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

If all mass has gravity, does all gravity have mass? We don’t know.

The Speed of Light: It’s Not Just a Good Idea It’s the Law. Unlike.

So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that’s not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.