Quotes from Neil deGrasse Tyson

In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.

The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.

Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.

I don't live life to be remembered for anything.

There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

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

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.

It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?"

The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.

I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.

Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.