Photo: MIller Mobley for Parade
If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 25, 2012
Principles of modern law assert that you're innocent until proven guilty. Yet airport security is the exact opposite of this.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 20, 2011
Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first the Chicken or the Egg? The Egg -- laid by a bird that was not a Chicken
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 5, 2011
Next time you're stunned by large Moon on horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 19, 2011
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 23, 2012
Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 11, 2010
If the surviving miners are heroes (rather than victims) then what do you call the NASA & Chilean Engineers who saved them?
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 17, 2010
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 21, 2011
More air molecules in breath of air than breaths of air in Earth's atmosphere. Some air you inhale was exhaled by Cleopatra.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) July 30, 2010
Cosmic objects with elements named in their honor: Sun (helium), Mercury (mercury), Earth (telerium), Moon (selenium)
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) November 4, 2011
Geek e-mail signoff: No trees were killed to send this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 28, 2011
Other than the waging of War, the ISS (assembled by Shuttle) is the most successful collaboration of nations there ever was.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) July 8, 2011
Without physics there'd be no Fashion Channel -- there'd be no TV. But w/o fashion, physicists might just be naked. Not good.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 12, 2010
If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 19, 2011
More evidence my 14yr old daughter is a Geek: after prompting me to ask if she knew any jokes about sodium, she replied, "Na"
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) July 23, 2011
Curiously, light-loving GREEN plants reject the Sun's GREEN light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look GREEN
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 17, 2011
If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person's body, and tied them end-to-end...the person will die.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) May 25, 2011
The most boring constellation: Triangulum Australis. A profound lack of imagination - any 3 stars in the sky makes a triangle
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) September 19, 2011