Welcome to the Universe Quotes

“When you are 31 years, 7 months, 9 hours, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds old, you’ve lived your billionth second.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“And the cosmos ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Astronomy, because of that peculiar history, has a fascinating legacy of early contributions by women.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“We are born of this universe, we live in this universe, and the universe is in us.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Intelligence and longevity do not seem to be correlated.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“The future is 1/39 as long as the past.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“It’s like asking what is south of the South Pole”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“If a particle can fall into a black hole, it can come out of a white hole.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Since four coordinates are needed, we know that we live in a four-dimensional universe”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Dark matter particles should be passing through your body right now.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Dark matter is dark; that means it does not interact with photons”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“You can picture the universe as an enormous loaf of raisin bread rising in the oven”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“It is often true that groundbreaking discoveries are made from poor data at the leading edge”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“As a scientist, you must embrace the inconstancy of knowledge.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“We simply organized the information differently—that’s all we did. And the New York Times was making a federal case out of it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Decade by decade: estimates of Pluto’s size got smaller and smaller.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Earth’s oceans will boil away about a billion years”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Stephen Hawking the reputation of being the smartest person alive. Most of us agree.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Your body has to come up with about 100 watts of energy to keep yourself warm”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“the hottest part of the day on Earth is not at noon, but sometime after noon, because the ground absorbs visible light”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“We are seeing these nearby stars, not as they are at the present moment, but as they were 4 years ago”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“People who navigate by the stars know that the altitude of Polaris you observe is equal to your latitude on Earth.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“If you must know, the brightest star in the nighttime sky is Sirius, the Dog Star.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“There are people, who walk around every day, asserting that we are alone in this cosmos. They simply have no concept of large numbers, no concept of the size of the cosmos.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“don’t count things, but instead count the ways things can happen.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Between 1 and 10 quadrillion ants live on (and in) Earth,”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“The universe today is 13.8 billion years old. By 22 billion years, the Sun will have finished its main-sequence lifetime and will have become a white dwarf. The Andromeda galaxy will have crashed into the Milky Way.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Here’s the story of how Pluto lost its planetary status and was demoted to an ice ball in the outer solar system. It’s also about my role in this at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“Our star, and most stars, are made mostly of hydrogen, which is the number one element in the universe: 90% of all atomic nuclei are hydrogen, about 8% are helium, and the remaining 2% comprise all the other elements in the periodic table. All”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

“We begin with the stars, then ascend up and away out to the galaxy, the universe, and beyond. What did Buzz Lightyear say in Toy Story? “To Infinity and Beyond!” It’s a big universe. I”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour