1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Geek e-mail sign-off: No trees were killed to send this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Bosons, by the way, are named for the Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Earth’s Moon is about 1/ 400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/ 400th as far from us, making the Sun and the Moon the same size on the sky—a coincidence not shared by any other planet–moon combination in the solar system, allowing for uniquely photogenic total solar eclipses.

The best colleges admit only successful students, offering no evidence the college itself forged the students' late success.

As the cosmos continues to cool—dropping below a hundred million degrees—protons fuse with protons as well as with neutrons, forming atomic nuclei and hatching a universe in which ninety percent of these nuclei are hydrogen and ten percent are helium, along with trace amounts of deuterium (“heavy” hydrogen), tritium (even heavier hydrogen), and lithium.

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

For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.

Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.