Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Alien

Quotes to Explore

I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

Dallas Roberts
- Night
- Waiting
- Kid
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Nathaniel Branden
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

Manfred von Richthofen
- Car
- Summer
- Heat
What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

Randall Munroe
- People
- Style
- Practice
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Edmund Burke
- May
- Happy
- Health
Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

Barbara Boxer
- Done
- Day
- Health