Neil Degrasse Tyson Quotes

By: Fiona Yin and Caroline Chang

About Neil DeGrasse TysonNeil DeGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. His mentor was Carl Sagan. He was born in New York City and graduated from the Bronx School of Science. http://mic.com/articles/117678/8-times-neil-de-grasse-tyson-changed-a-kid-s-life-with-just-one-quote#.ATuDXJFPy This link leads you to a website where you could watch Neil answer kid’s questions.

“I have colleagues with dyslexia. It's a hurdle but in the Olympics what do you do when you come to a hurdle? You jump over it.”

~Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“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

Neil Degrasse Tyson

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

“No one is dumb, who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions, remain clueless throughout their lives.”

-Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“Children are born scientists. They’re curious about everything around them. And we spend the rest of our lives telling them to shut up and sit down.-Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“If I liv

e a day and

don't know a litt

le

more that day than

the day before, I

think I wasted that

day.”

-Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“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 us.”~Neil Degrasse Tyson

Funny Quotes“I've come to

realize that

Fettuccini Alfredo is just

Mac and Cheese

for food snobs.”

“Just to settle it

once and for all:

Which came first

the Chicken or the

Egg? The Egg --

laid by a bird that

was not a

chicken.”

“Ages for

which you are

the “prim

e” of

your life:

2, 3, 5, 7, 11,

13,

17, 19, 23, 29,

31, 37, 4

1, 43,

47, 53, 59, 61,

67, 71, 7

3, 79,

83, 89, 97, 1

01”

“If Pizza sizes were

given in area not diameter, you’d see

instantly that a 7

inch is less than half the size of a 10

inch pie.”“According to

the song, Rudolph’s nose

is shiny, which

means it reflects rather

than emits light. Useless

for navigating

fog.”.

“Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of

the Universe.”

“

“Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.”

“Slowest pitch in

Baseball to

reach catcher?

30mph, thrown

at 45-deg angle.

Any slower at

any other angle

hits ground.”

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