Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

“Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.”

“Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.”

“I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.”

“No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.”

“'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.”

“The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'”

“We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.”

“We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.”

“Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.”

“If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.”