Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

We need to make science cool again.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.

I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and it was only when I became an adult that I began to really appreciate from a completely different angle the power of science.

I want to really focus on doing this two things I really would like to focus on science and the excitement of science and to help with science. So, that's my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.

Cycling is not rocket science.

I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater

Music is fun. It should be fun. And that's the key, I think. Keep it as the thing you love.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

I don't really like to work with literary allusions very much. I never want to be in a position where I'm saying, "You've got to read a lot of other stuff" or "You've got to have had a good education in literature to fully appreciate what I'm doing."

It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.