Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

When we explore other planets, we learn a lot about our own.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe.

Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space.

Together, NASA and Hubble are opening new vistas on the universe.

I’ve since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

There is nothing unimportant in the universe.

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe.

Everyone I love I pay.

To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.

Clearly I know, the mind is mountains, rivers, and the great earth; sun, moon, and stars.

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.