1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?

I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all species of Earth life than any two species of Earth life are from each other.

For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.

Words that make questions may not be questions at all.

Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real value comes about when it's time to distinguish reality from everything else. And to be scientifically literate is to be trained in what it is, to recognize your own frailty as a data-taking device.

Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.