1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only is Earth not in the center of the solar system, but the solar system is not in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is not in the center of the universe, and it may come to pass that our universe is just one of many that comprise a multiverse. And in case you're one of those people who thinks that the edge may be a special place, we are not at the edge of anything either.

I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.