Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars. … The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Neil deGrasse TysonSociety needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
Neil deGrasse TysonI think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.
Neil deGrasse TysonOne of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.
Neil deGrasse Tyson... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.
Neil deGrasse TysonI think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.
Neil deGrasse TysonThere's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.
Neil deGrasse Tyson