Top 226 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

About Neil deGrasse Tyson

These are some quotes by American author Neil deGrasse Tyson Scientist, who was born on October 5, 1958.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus!

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.

It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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