Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.

Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.

By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your ways though I am--would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them. Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge?

I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one.

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

people are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive.

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.

You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet named Earth. Calls himself 'Samuel Conrad'. And he will remain here in his cage with the running water and the electricity and the central heat- as long as he lives. Samuel Conrad has found the Twilight Zone.

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.