1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.

WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.

There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy.

I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

We are only intelligent by our own measures

WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming.

Every day, I wake up and I say, 'Why... how... did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?' It's freaky to me, every day, but that tells me that there's an appetite out there that had previously been underserved. There's an inner geek in us all, an inner bit of curiosity that people are discovering, and they like it.