Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

“As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.”

“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight.

The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large-headed H*mo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially pea-brained dinosaurs.”

“In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.”

“Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.”

“Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.”

“The flip side of not noticing your own culture is one of the great pleasures of foreign travel: realizing what you hadn’t noticed about your own country, and noticing what the people of other countries no longer realize about themselves.”

“When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.”