Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

The universe is a great mystery.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

Space is a laboratory, an experiment in all forms of all things, an infinity of possibilities, properties, and places that cry out for investigation and exploration.

Space is something which makes us question our role here on Earth. It brings out the best of our hopes and dreams.

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

We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.

Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

The Hubble Space Telescope is more than remarkable. It has answered just so many of those fundamental questions that people have been asking about the cosmos since people were able to ask questions.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.