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" I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier. "

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" There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Behavior

Life

Environment

" Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into? "

" Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions. "

" We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

War

Explore

" If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you. "

" In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not. "

" I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all. "

" It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life. "

" People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book. "

" What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that. "

" Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine. "

" There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. "

" If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist. "

" You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues. "

" We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it. "

" People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it. "

" The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand and justify it every year. Well, I see it as the greatest economic driver that there ever was. Economic drivers don't need justification. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Problem

People

" It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents. "

" 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. "

" If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth. "

" The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture. "

" I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time. "

" I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly. "

" The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not. "

" Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story. "

" I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively. "

" 'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge of the universe, but we're going to land right on you: in your heart, in your soul, in your mind. My goal is to have people know that they are participants in this great unfolding cosmic story. "

" If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Time

Black

" The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time. "

" We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads. "