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I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.

WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.

For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.

When you innovate, the jobs can't go overseas because other countries haven't figured out how to do it yet.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

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