"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 abo...

When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson ~










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"God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
"In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay of th...
"Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.
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"I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEAR...
"I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that...
"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surpr...
"I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those...
"The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light ele...
"Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They...
"The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.
"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sit...
"There are more stolen bikes in my garage than there are stars in the galaxy.


