Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

Once every lunar eclipse, you should be able to see me smile!

The total eclipses of the sun are very special and have been associated with wars, famines, floods, unprecedented climate changes and the death or birth of dictators, rulers, presidents and kings, especially near the area where the total eclipse occurs.

The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.

To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

An eclipse is one phenomenon that is actually more impressive from the ground.

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved the Moon. It's always there and continues to inspire humanity.

In many cultures, a total eclipse of the Sun predicts cataclysms and bad events.

I call Pluto the harbinger.

He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun.

The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.

Right before the explosions begin, I find a star.

At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.

And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return.

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.