1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.

There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one.

If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go.

People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.