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

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

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.

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

WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.

For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.

People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.

I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

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

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

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

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

When you innovate, the jobs can't go overseas because other countries haven't figured out how to do it yet.

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.

When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

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

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

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

So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.

If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.

Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.

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