I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent. Neil deGrasse Tyson crusadedirectorextraordinary Change image and share on social
I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking. Neil deGrasse Tyson criticalpeoplethink Change image and share on social
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles. Neil deGrasse Tyson culturecycledie Change image and share on social
If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians. Neil deGrasse Tyson descendearthform Change image and share on social
All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet. Once you investigate that, you find out that Disney's dog Pluto was sketched the same year the cosmic object was discovered. And Pluto was discovered by an American. Neil deGrasse Tyson americaamericanattachment share on social
I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered. Neil deGrasse Tyson closecompletecomprise Change image and share on social
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. Neil deGrasse Tyson ambitionexplorationhave Change image and share on social
I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought. Neil deGrasse Tyson academicaerospacearmy share on social
One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result. Neil deGrasse Tyson bearbeliefexperiment share on social
It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder. Neil deGrasse Tyson cosmiccuriosityencode Change image and share on social