Neil Degrasse Tyson Net Worth

Neil Degrasse Tyson Net Worth is
$1 Million

Neil Degrasse Tyson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the...

Full Name	Neil deGrasse Tyson
Net Worth	$1 Million
Date Of Birth	October 5, 1958
Place Of Birth	Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Profession	Astronomer, Writer, Astrophysicist, Author, Actor, Television Editor
Education	Columbia University (1991)
Nationality	United States of America
Spouse	Alice Young (m. 1988)
Children	Miranda Tyson, Travis Tyson
Parents	Cyril deGrasse Tyson, Sunchita Feliciano Tyson
Siblings	Lynn Tyson, Stephen Tyson
Nicknames	Dr. Neil Tyson , Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson , Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson , Neil deGrasse Tyson PhD , Neil de Grasse Tyson
Awards	NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Reality Show Host, Isaac Asimov Awards, Shorty Award for Best in Science, Klopsteg Memorial Award, Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, Medal of Excellence
Nominations	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series Or Special, Shorty Award for Best Podcast
Movies	400 Years of the Telescope
TV Shows	Hubble's Cosmic Journey, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, StarTalk, Nova ScienceNow, The Universe
Star Sign	Libra

#	Quote
1	My great fear is that we've in fact been visited by intelligent aliens, but they chose not to make contact, on the conclusion that there's no sign of intelligent life on earth. We were sending signals out before we were doing it on purpose. Our early TV shows like 'I Love Lucy' and 'The Honeymooners' and that sort of thing - 'Howdy Doody'. These are our cultural emissaries.
2	[on if religion and science have an inherent conflict between them] - Most religious people in America, fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is. It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict where science can go. The rest, you know, are just fine with science. And has been that way ever since the beginning. And by the way, there's no tradition of scientists knocking down the door, the Sunday school door, telling the preacher what to teach. There's no tradition of scientists picketing outside of churches nor should there be some [emergent] tradition of religious fundamentalists trying to change the curriculum in the science classroom. There's been a happy coexistence for centuries. And for that to change now would be unfortunate. Because I've seen this happen in other nations and the other states where the consequences are that you just basically recede back to the cave because that's where you land when you undermine the scientific and technological innovations that come about when you're a properly trained scientist or technologist. Consider also that in America, 40% of American scientists are religious. So this notion that there's some... that if you're a scientist, you're an atheist or if you're religious, you're not a scientist, that's just empirically false. It's an empirically false statement. And what I mean by religious is that you can pose the question in a way that is unambiguous. You don't ask, well, do you go to church every Sunday 'cause plenty of people go to church, like, just for the pie, you know, or the social scene after the service. You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your conduct. And it's the yes to that question that applies to 40% of scientists. So, there're plenty of atheists who are scientists or not scientists. There maybe a conflict but many people in this country coexist in both worlds.
3	This present-day version of God of the gaps goes by a fresh name: intelligent design. ... Instead, why not tally all those things whose design ... reflect[s] the absence of intelligence?
4	Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
5	Another practice that isn't science is embracing ignorance. Yet it's fundamental to the philosophy of intelligent design: I don't know what this is ... So it must be the product of a higher intelligence.
6	[T]he persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.
7	To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.
8	Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.
9	[Regarding Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)] - They all knew the mother-ship was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.
10	So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.
11	I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.
12	We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet. ... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.
13	Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.
14	[A]s they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion. ... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
15	I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.
16	[on what his favorite sci-fi movies are] - Deep Impact (1998) and Contact (1997). They spent a lot of time getting the science right. I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.
17	Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do, to the benefit of us all.
18	If that's how you wanna invoke your evidence for god, then god is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance, thats getting smaller, smaller and smaller as time goes on.
19	When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.
20	One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
21	I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.
22	What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind "through the universe"? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
23	Science is something to be proud of, it allows us to understand the world in spite of ourselves.
24	Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.
25	The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
26	Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
27	The more your ideas are untestable, either in principle or in practice, the less useful they are to the advance of science.

#	Fact
1	Has two children: a son named Travis, and a daughter named Miranda.
2	First African American director of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, in New York City. Tyson is also a researcher, a professor of astrophysics at Princeton University, and a general-interest science columnist. Author of books for nonspecialists on space and the universe (listed under Other Works).
3	At his high school's 20-year reunion in 1996, Tyson was voted the graduate with the "coolest job."

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Editorial Department

Title	Year	Status
Nova ScienceNow	2005-2011	TV Series documentary executive editor - 67 episodes
Nova Science Now: How Smart Are Animals?	2011	TV Series documentary executive editor - 1 episode
Nova	2003-2010	TV Series documentary executive editor - 6 episodes

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
StarTalk	2015-2016	TV Series executive producer - 20 episodes

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Boundary	2016	Short completed	Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Simpsons	2017	TV Series	Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Jim Gaffigan Show	2016	TV Series	Neil deGrasse Tyson
BoJack Horseman	2016	TV Series	Planetarium Narrator
Ice Age: Collision Course	2016		Neil deBuck Weasel (voice)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	2016		Neil deGrasse Tyson
Zoolander 2	2016		Neil deGrasse Tyson
Family Guy	2016	TV Series	Neil deGrasse Tyson
Brooklyn Nine-Nine	2015	TV Series	Neil deGrasse Tyson
Lazer Team	2015		Neil deGrasse Tyson
StarTalk	2015	TV Series	Host / Himself
Gravity Falls	2014	TV Series	Smart Waddles
Dark Universe	2013	Short	Narrator
The Big Bang Theory	2010	TV Series	Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stargate: Atlantis	2008	TV Series	Neil deGrasse Tyson

Editor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Nova ScienceNow	2005-2008	TV Series documentary 7 episodes

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey	2014	TV Mini-Series documentary executive science editor - 1 episode
102 Minutes That Changed America	2008	TV Movie documentary footage
Seeing in the Dark	2007	TV Movie documentary advisor

Thanks

Title	Year	Status
David	2014	Short very special thanks
The Astronomer	2012	Documentary short inspirational thanks
All Things Shining	2012	inspirational thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
What's a Podcast? A Documentary Film	2016	Documentary post-production	Himself
Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity	2017	Documentary	Himself
StarTalk	2015-2017	TV Series	Himself / Host / Himself - Host
Garbage Time with Katie Nolan	2017	TV Series	Himself
The Mars Generation	2017	Documentary	Himself
Match Game	2017	TV Series	Himself - Celebrity Panelist
Jeopardy!	2008-2017	TV Series	Himself - Video Clue Presenter / Himself - Clue Giver
Jay Leno's Garage	2016	TV Series documentary	Himself - Astrophysicist
The Kennedy Show	2016	TV Series	Himself - Physicist
CBS This Morning	2014-2016	TV Series	Himself - Author / Himself - Astrophysicist / Himself / ...
Food Evolution	2016	Documentary	Narrator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	2015-2016	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Guest
Conan	2015-2016	TV Series	Himself - Astrophysicist / Himself - Guest / Himself - Star Talk Host
Regular Show in Space	2016	TV Series	Himself
The View	2015-2016	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Astrophysicist
Scrat: Spaced Out	2016	Video short	Himself - Narrator
Future-Worm!	2016	TV Series	Himself
Talk Stoop with Cat Greenleaf	2016	TV Series	Himself
Órbita Laika: La Nueva Generación	2016	TV Series	Himself - Interviewee
2016 Creative Arts Emmys	2016	TV Movie	Himself - Presenter: Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance / Outstanding Short Form Animated Program / Outstanding Animated Program and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation
Chelsea	2016	TV Series	Himself
The Late Late Show with James Corden	2016	TV Series	Himself
Tavis Smiley	2007-2016	TV Series	Himself
Today	2015-2016	TV Series	Himself
Real Time with Bill Maher	2011-2016	TV Series	Himself - Guest / Himself - Author, 'Space Chronicles' / Himself - Panelist / ...
Fight for Space	2016	Documentary	Himself - Astrophysicist
Ro's Life	2016	TV Series short	Himself
Zoolander No. 2: Believe in Your Selfie	2016	Video short	Himself
Zoolander No. 2: Go Big or Go Rome	2016	Video documentary short	Himself
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore	2015-2016	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Panelist
For the Love of Spock	2016	Documentary	Himself
CinemaSins	2016	TV Series	Himself
MythBusters	2016	TV Series documentary	Himself
100 Things to Do Before High School	2016	TV Series	Himself
Ares: Our Greatest Adventure	2016	Video short	Himself
Sports Jeopardy!	2015	TV Series	Himself - Clue Giver
Climate Change in the Pacific	2015	TV Mini-Series documentary	Narrator
2015 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards	2015	TV Movie	Himself - Presenter: Outstanding Children's Program / Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program / Outstanding Animated Program / ...
Charlie Rose	1998-2015	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering	2015	TV Series	Himself
Larry King Now	2013-2015	TV Series	Himself - Guest
On the Money	2015	TV Series	Himself - Astrophysicist
The Daily Show	2007-2015	TV Series	Himself
Hubble's Cosmic Journey	2015	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Narrator (voice)
60 Minutes	2015	TV Series documentary	Himself - Astrophysicist (segment "Starstruck")
Hot Sugar's Cold World	2015	Documentary	Himself
Nerdy Nummies	2015	TV Series	Himself
Painting the Way to the Moon	2015	Documentary	Himself
Painting the Way to the Moon	2014	TV Movie documentary
The Colbert Report	2005-2014	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Guest / Herself - Guest / ...
Saving My Tomorrow	2014	TV Series documentary	Narrator / Himself
HuffPost Live Conversations	2014	TV Series	Himself
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - The Voyage Continues	2014	Video documentary short	Himself - Host
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey	2014	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself - Host
This Is Not a Ball	2014	Documentary	Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	2014	TV Series	Himself
Everything Wrong with...	2014	TV Series	Himself
Good Morning Today	2014	TV Series	Himself
Late Night with Seth Meyers	2014	TV Series	Himself
Fox and Friends	2014	TV Series	Himself
Last Call with Carson Daly	2014	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Inside Edition	2014	TV Series documentary	Himself
Good Day L.A.	2014	TV Series	Himself
Moyers & Company	2014	TV Series	Himself
Overheard	2014	TV Series	Himself - interviewee
Chris Hardwick's All-Star Celebrity Bowling	2013	TV Series	Himself
Stuff You Should Know	2013	TV Series	Himself
Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell	2012	TV Series	Himself - Guest
P.O.V.	2012	TV Series documentary	Himself
John Carter: 100 Years in the Making	2012	Video documentary short	Hayden Planetarium Director
Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory	2012	Documentary	Himself
On the Verge	2012	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Rock Center with Brian Williams	2012	TV Series	Himself
The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries	2012	TV Series documentary	Himself - Host / Host - Presenter
The Mo'Nique Show	2011	TV Series	Himself
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	2009-2011	TV Series	Himself - Guest / Himself
Nova ScienceNow	2005-2011	TV Series documentary	Himself - Host / Himself
The Reality of Me (TROM)	2011	Documentary	Himself
Nova Science Now: How Smart Are Animals?	2011	TV Series documentary	Himself - Host
The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers	2010	TV Series	Himself
Nova	2004-2010	TV Series documentary	Himself / Narrator / Host / ...
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - Secret Doors and Scientists, Behind-the-Scenes of The American Museum of Natural History	2009	Video short	Himself
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire	2009	TV Series	Himself - Guest Expert
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	2009	TV Series	Himself
400 Years of the Telescope	2009	Documentary	Narrator (voice)
Einstein	2008/II	TV Movie documentary	Himself
D.L. Hughley Breaks the News	2008	TV Series	Himself
Horizon	2008	TV Series documentary	Himself - American Museum of Natural History
How Life Began	2008	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Universe	2007-2008	TV Series documentary	Himself - American Museum of Natural History / Himself - Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History / Himself - American Museum of Natural HJistory
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	2007	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Last Days on Earth	2006	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Astrophysicist: American Museum of Natural History (as Neil deGrasse Tyson Ph.D.)
My Favorite Universe	2003	TV Series documentary
Window to the Universe	2000	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Closer to Truth	2000	TV Series	Himself
BreakThrough: The Changing Face of Science in America	1996	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Atheist Delusion	2016	Video documentary	Himself
An Open Letter to Neil DeGrasse Tyson Regarding the Flat Earth	2016	Video short	Himself
Ro's Life	2016	TV Series short	Himself
The Drunken Peasants	2015	TV Series	Himself
60 Minutes	2015	TV Series documentary	Himself - Astrophysicist (segment "Starstruck")
Design(er)	2014	TV Series	Himself
The Comfort Zone	2013-2014	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Astrophysicist
Europa Report	2013		Himself (uncredited)

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2014	Critics' Choice TV Award	Critics Choice Television Awards	Best Reality Host	Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)

Nominated Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
2016	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Informational Series or Special	StarTalk (2015)
2015	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Narrator	Hubble's Cosmic Journey (2015)
2015	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Informational Series or Special	StarTalk (2015)
2014	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series	Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)

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Neil Degrasse Tyson Net Worth

Neil Degrasse Tyson Net Worth is
$1 Million