Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them.

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

Because Hubble's been up so many years now, it's actually given us a window to things like... how planets' atmospheres actually change, evolve... over time.

Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to take this thing and poke it and see how it reacts. In astronomy, we can't do that. The stars, the planets, the galaxies, are so far away that we just look at them, and we have to learn things by looking at them.

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

All the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.

There were stars. They burned my eyes.

I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

I dreamt of being an astronomer; I had a series of 'How and Why' books on the planets and the stars. At that stage, there were only 14 galaxies; now there are multiverses, dark matter, the nano-microscopic world of the interior of atomic structure.

The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.

It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show up at some object in space and turn on the viewfinder, the audience and the people in the show know immediately whether it's a planet or a star or a comet or an asteroid.

I actually believe more in outer space in Virginia, because I can look up at the sky and count the stars.

I like the universe and nature. I am inspired a lot by the beauties of nature. I named myself as the sun because the sun is the brightest star from the incalculable stars in the universe.

Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble.

I wanted to be an astronomer until I discovered I'm terrible at math.

Hubble made my career.

I don't know why. I'm fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.