1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

Miniaturization of electronics started by NASA's push became an entire consumer products industry. Now we're carrying the complete works of Beethoven on a lapel pin listening to it in headphones.

The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.

There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest.

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.

I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered.

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.