Quotes from Neil deGrasse Tyson

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.

There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows.

If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person's body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

How much would you pay to launch our economy? How much would you pay for the universe?

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

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

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

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.

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they're small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.