1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant.

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

when I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study time. That helped me psychologically. When I'm wrestling, I'm not studying the universe. And when I'm studying the universe, I'm not wrestling.

What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.

I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

If you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else.

Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink-or never arise at all-and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered each other because of them.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.