Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring him into the present to hang out with me. See, that might be terrifying because his head will just explode once he sees everything that was derived from his discoveries, but I'd spend more time with someone who I think is one of the most brilliant minds our species has ever known.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Neil Gaiman

Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.

Neil Gaiman

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

Neil Gaiman

Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.

Neil Gaiman

You know, it's weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you've never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer.

Neil Gaiman

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

Neil Gaiman

I think of myself as a very lazy author.

Neil Gaiman

I thought, I'm going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live.

Neil Gaiman

You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just a little of you would exist everywhere, all spread out. And that's not a good thing. Never enough of you all together in one place, so t here wouldn't be anything left that would think of itself as an 'I.' No point of view any longer, because you'd be an infinite sequence of views and of points...

Neil Gaiman

Mostly you are what they think you are.

Neil Gaiman

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

Neil Gaiman

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.

Neil Gaiman

Now me,” said Mr. Vandemar. “What number am I thinking of?” “I beg your pardon?” “What number am I thinking of?” repeated Mr. Vandemar. “It’s between one and a lot,” he added, helpfully.

Neil Gaiman

Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

Neil Gaiman

I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on." "Babes," he told her. "You're dead." "That's one of those aspects, obviously.

Neil Gaiman

I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

Neil Gaiman

I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for something deeper and weirder and infinitely more strange, and that, in some way, I already know the truth. But I think that's just how the world has always been. And even now I know the truth, the world still seems cheap and shoddy. Different world, different shoddy, but that's how it feels.

Neil Gaiman

None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.

Neil Gaiman

I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?

Neil Gaiman

I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots and lots of small groups who like you a lot, they add up to a big group without ever actually becoming mainstream.

Neil Gaiman

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

Neil Gaiman

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.

Neil Gaiman

You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?

Neil Gaiman

I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.' 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.

Neil Gaiman

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

Neil Gaiman

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.