1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights.

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.

Your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty and because it's noisy, but for you it's fun and you're doing experiments. ... Just tell your parents that they're experiments and you want to become a scientist, and they won't stop you from doing anything you want.

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.

If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.

The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.

I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can't find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!