Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Blowing people's minds is one of my favorite things to do.

If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy.

Periodically, my mind is blown and I'm swamped in feelings I can't deny.

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

ATLANTA NIGHTS: I haven't been this stunned since my colonoscopy.

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.

You could have knocked me down with a fender.

The Saab seethed off into the night. Arthur watched it go, as stunned as a man might be who, having believed himself to be totally blind for five years, suddenly discovers that he had merely been wearing too large a hat.

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

A bolt from the blue.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

One of the questions I often get asked is, "Were you surprised that Trump won?" I always answer the same way: "I was surprised, I am surprised and I will never stop being surprised."

I don't believe what I just saw!

Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

You cannot be serious!

Even though he was here, she couldn't quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again. Yep, still there. Amazing.

I felt like I had just double-tapped Santa.