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50 Educational Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tweets That'll Make You Feel Much More Intelligent

Thursday the 12th is just as rare as Friday the 13th.
Holly Riordan
August 4, 2016
“Seems every few decades the World goes batshit crazy. Just long enough to forget the last time the World went batshit crazy.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: War, Violence, humanity
“According to the song, Rudolph’s nose is shiny, which means it reflects rather than emits light. Useless for navigating fog.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: rudolph, Christmas, Science, Light
“The most boring constellation: Triangulum Australis. A profound lack of imagination - any 3 stars in the sky makes a triangle.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: constellation, Stars, Sky
“Just an FYI: Roman Numerals have no zero because it was not yet invented, allowing year 2000 to be written efficiently as MM.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: roman numerals, Numbers, years
“Will enjoy colorful fireworks tonight? Thank aluminum barium calcium chlorine copper iron nitrogen oxygen sodium and strontium.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: Science, Fireworks, periodic table
“Comment-Thread Virus: The urge to argue vociferously even when you have no actual idea of what you are talking about.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: commenting, Internet, trolls
“Slowest pitch in Baseball to reach catcher? 30mph, thrown at 45-deg angle. Any slower at any other angle hits ground.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: baseball, Sports, physics
“If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100-billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: Ghosts, Death, Afterlife, creepy
“Some of my best friends -- actually every one of my best friends -- are made of chemicals.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: Chemicals, Friends, Science
“June 20 vs June 21: Solstices (& Equinoxes) annually migrate 6-hrs later, until a Leap Year, when they reset 24-hrs earlier.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: solstices, equinoxes, leap year
“A Rainbow forms only broadside to your line of sight. That's why the pot of Gold at its base remains eternally out of reach.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: rainbow, Science, sight
“The exact Rainbow any of us sees in the sky is entirely our own -- a personal, yet communal gift from the laws of optics.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: rainbow, Point of View, optics, sight
“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, via twitter.com
Tagged: Light, plants, Colors
“To tell you the truth, beginning a sentence with, “To tell you the truth,” throws into question all else you’ve previous said.””
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: Truth, Lies, Communication
“The elevation difference between the Marianas Trench & Mount Everest’s summit is a mere 12 miles. Manhattan is a mile longer.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: elevation, mount everest, Manhattan, Distance
“Earth gets slammed by a hundred tons of meteors per day. Most, harmlessly vaporizing in the atmosphere as shooting stars.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: Earth, meteors, Shooting Stars
“THIN AIR: The size of Earth’s atmosphere relative to Earth is the same as the skin of an Apple relative to the Apple.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: Earth, Atmosphere, apples
“If I ever met a Space Alien, I’d resist shaking its extended appendage, not knowing for sure the details of alien anatomy.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: Aliens, Space, Anatomy
“Not that anybody asked, but Gregorian calendar rules unintentionally prevent eclipses from ever occurring on Easter Sunday.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: calendar, eclipses, easter
“In Terminator, only living things can time-travel. But hair is dead. So Arnold should've landed in LA not only naked but bald”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: terminator, hair, bald, Movies
“Equinox is “Equal Night” in Latin, but refraction in Earth’s atmosphere adds minutes of extra sunshine at sunrise & sunset.””
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: equinox, latin, Atmosphere, sunrise
“If you have a gene for celibacy, you didn’t inherit it.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: celibacy, Virginity, Sex, genes
“The closest thing to fatally passing through a portal into another dimension is when fish get yanked out of water, then eaten.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: fish, portals, dimensions
“If you are born on a Leap Day, you share this distinction with about 1 out of 1,400 people in the world.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: leap day, birthday, unique
“Wanna lose 1200 calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: calories, Weight, Water
“The Leap Day is misnamed. We’re not leaping anywhere. The calendar is simply, and abruptly, catching up with Earth’s orbit”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: leap year, calendar, Earth, orbit
“In 5-billion years the Sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: Sun, orbit, Death
“Just an FYI: Thursday the 12th is just as rare as Friday the 13th.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: friday the 13, unique, calendar
“Exterminators: The only profession in which you put yourself out of business by being really good at your job.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: Career, exterminator, Business
“Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via twitter.com
Tagged: italian, spanish, explorers, Church