Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes — Page 33

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Funny

“You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.”

Country Earth Guarantees That

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Philosophical

“NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers. We went to the moon because we were at war with the Soviet Union. And so when it became clear that they (Soviet Union) were not going to the moon, we're done with the moon.”

War Moon Unions

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Funny

“I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time.”

War Stars

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Philosophical

“95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin.”

Universe Known

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Funny

“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.”

Book Wells Parrots

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Funny

“Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?”

Legs Entertainment Middle

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Funny

“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.”

War Moon Dna

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Curious

“Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good at science in school. Science is around you. Once you know and embrace that fact, it might stimulate curiosity within you to learn more about the natural world.”

World School Curiosity

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Inspired

“WhenIWasYourAge: People were never "living with their disease." We cured them. Or they died from it.”

People Disease Medical

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Courageous

“Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn’t change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.”

Believe Reality Cherries

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Courageous

“Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will rise until it matches the 3,000-degree rarified outer layers of the expanded Sun.... But not to worry. We will surely go extinct for some other reason long before this scenario unfolds.”

Long Worry Sky

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Grateful

“'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.”

Two Space Bad Ass

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