Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

When you're married with kids, you just think differently.

I have two kids now and through watching them, I keep having flashbacks to my own childhood.

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

Having four kids of my own, fifth one on the way... I think with "Junior," what's happened over the last three years is this program's been implemented across schools.

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for.

With young kids (I have four including the newborn) times passes weirdly for me.

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever?

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

When you were kids, you can tell when an adult is bad or good; and I think people can feel that I'm genuine. It's the best thing in the world.

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.

we who determine how quickly time passes.