Top 500 Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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2. “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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3. “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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4. “Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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5. “Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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6. “Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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7. “There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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8. “For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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9. “When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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10. “We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

11. “Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

12. “Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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13. “Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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14. “Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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15. “We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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16. “If you’re scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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17. “I think of space not as the final frontier but as the next frontier. Not as something to be conquered but to be explored.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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18. “To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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19. “Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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20. “The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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21. “There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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22. “As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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23. “Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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24. “If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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25. “Photography is a form of time travel.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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27. “I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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28. “Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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29. “If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

30. “If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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31. “We are not figuratively, but literally Stardust.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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33. “One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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34. “Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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35. “When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

36. “All information is good, even when it is bad.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

37. “Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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38. “Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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39. “Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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40. “In life and in the universe it’s always best to keep looking up.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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41. “I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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42. “On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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43. “It’s my duty to enlighten people.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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44. “Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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45. “When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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46. “The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

47. “Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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48. “Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don’t know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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49. “Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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50. “Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson