1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

When did it become okay to be more offended by what someone with no power says than by what someone with power does?

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're wright, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

[...] however big our world is - in our hearts, our minds, and our outsized digital maps - the universe is even bigger. A depressing thought to some, but a liberating thought to me.

The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.