1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.

Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all about our TV programs (probably a bad thing), will hear all our FM music (probably a good thing), and know nothing of the politics of AM talk-show hosts (probably a safe thing).

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.

We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet [in Titanic] sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that, I think.