1,151 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?

There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Scientific inquiry shouldn’t stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.

If you board an aircraft built according to science – with principles that have survived numerous attempts to prove them wrong – you have a far better chance of reaching your destination than you do in an aircraft constructed by the rules of Vedic astrology.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn’t understand. It’s a sense of empowerment.

Space exploration may pull in the talent, but war pays the bills.