The idea that science is just some luxury that you... -Neil deGrasse Tyson

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes to Explore

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...

The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highe...

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So ...

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every chi...

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent D...

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launc...

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans....

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, di...

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

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 t...

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The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself....