Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

I watched all these movies like 'King Kong' and 'Godzilla' when I was growing up, and the fact that dinosaurs actually lived on this earth, the fact that they are not fake, made them very fascinating.

The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.

Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive.

We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.

Perhaps someday in the distant future, dinosaurs may once again rule the Earth. If they ever learn to watch the stars, then maybe they will find our ruins in the sky.

It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

We are beginning to resemble extinct dinosaurs, who suffered from too much armor and too little brain.

Evolution never stops or ends. Such a cessation would be cataclysmic catastrophe.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

It is not the strongest of the species that survives. Nor is it the most intelligent. It is the members of the species that are most adaptive to change.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

I've loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.

The basic ability to not wipe oneself out, to endure, to use your technological interaction with the world in such a way that has the possibility of the likelihood of lasting and not being temporary - that seems like a pretty good definition of intelligence.

We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our circles of awareness, inventing new technologies and social structures.

I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.