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" Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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" 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. "

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" I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomorrow's economies. "

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" I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing. "

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" Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories. "

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" Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity. "

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" Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.' "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!' "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make of it just so we can believe we understand what's going on. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight. "

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" Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward - as an investment in our economy. "

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" 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. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet. "

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" I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson