The need to create a new taxonomy that isn’t just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent that something will come out of it. I’m sure of it, even if it’s not tomorrow. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don’t understand how science works. That’s what I claim. And if they did, they’d be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
The center line of science literacy – which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point – is how you think. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there’s no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we’ll see if we find that. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything! Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations – as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Once you investigate that, you find out that Disney’s dog Pluto was sketched the same year the cosmic object was discovered. And Pluto was discovered by an American. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
