Neil Degrasse Tyson

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Photography is a form of time travel.

There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.

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

The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.

There's no denying the public's appetite for cosmic discovery.

The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?

We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

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

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.

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