1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.

I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.