1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

We’re talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you’re right but not enough to know you’re wrong.

Down there between our legs, it’s like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.

No day before October 10, 1582, actually occurred on the Gregorian calendar for that was when the calendar was implemented officially.

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.

I’m often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: “Do you believe in Gravity?”

Turns out, while all light pollution is bad for astrophysics, the low-pressure sodium lamps are least bad because their contamination can be easily subtracted from telescope data. In a model of cooperation, the entire city of Tucson, Arizona, the nearest large municipality to the Kitt Peak National Observatory, has, by agreement with the local astrophysicists, converted all its streetlights to low-pressure sodium lamps.

You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don’t know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future.