Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

despite its apparent impracticality, the Administration values discovery-oriented science, and aims to continue to support the grand quest for knowledge about the universe at the largest and smallest scales.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

I met Carl Sagan quite a few times - a fantastic and amazing person. I love him. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a good friend, too.

As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.'

I'd love to present a popular science programme because it's something I feel very passionate about.

Of course 'Horizon' had made an impact on me from a young age, but it was also humbling to meet and interview eminent scientists, and hear their high opinion of the series and of the science presented on the BBC more generally.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of the objectives that I had working with Fringe was to get more people talking about it because it's such fun.

I want to really focus on doing this two things I really would like to focus on science and the excitement of science and to help with science. So, that's my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.

Since I was really little, I've just always had an obsession with, not just science fiction, but science and space. And also because as time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.