Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life bec...”

“People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to h...”

“Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.”

“Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here o...”

“Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.”

“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.”

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

“There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.”

“The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.”

“I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.”

“It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science can go. The rest, you know, are just fine...”

“If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to y...”

“In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.”

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

“All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.”

“The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.”

“What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.”

“It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.”

“I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.”

“There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest.”