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Famous Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
“I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.”
“Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.”
“I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.”
“Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.”
“I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.”
“If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.”
“If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.”
“It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.”
“People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.”
“Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.”
“Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.”
“Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.”
“The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.”