Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

764 quotes · Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Courageous

“There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.”

Thinking Self Past

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Peaceful

“One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle.”

Perfect Circles Peaceful

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Funny

“Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.”

Long Doctors Beauty And Love

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Grateful

“To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it.”

Firsts Television Nominations

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Angry

“America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin”

America

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Angry

“What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.”

Nice Journey Lessons To Be Learned

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Angry

“After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.”

Years Television Aliens

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Angry

“I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.”

Fear Atheism Classroom

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Philosophical

“Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.”

Jesus Feet Lazarus

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Creative

“We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.”

People World Helping Others

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Angry

“A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense.”

Science Brain Common Sense

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Wise

“Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.”

Law Gravity Newton

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