Neil deGrasse Tyson World Quotations

With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.

We need more science in the world. Train me.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

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

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good at science in school. Science is around you. Once you know and embrace that fact, it might stimulate curiosity within you to learn more about the natural world.

If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.

In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.