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140 Space quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson warns that space exploration could become a battlefield if nations race for military bases. He predicts that wealth will come from mining asteroids and that public excitement grows with each new mission. He also reminds us that learning about the universe is a basic human right.

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I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.

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Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

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

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“Listen up, because living off-planet might lie ahead.”

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The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.

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“Matter tells space how to curve; space tells matter how to move.”†”

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We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

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“….. Neptune, the outermost planet. No, it’s not Pluto. Get over it.”

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“I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only with robots, but with the mind,…

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Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually…

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NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

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When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.

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

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There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search…

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“Merlin prefers to think of space as the regions between all the particles of all the atoms of the universe.”

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My interest in the space program has a certain purity to it because I recognize the romance of it but I was…

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

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This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and…

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The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space -…

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I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not…

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Astronauts are the only kind of celebrity I know who can have a line of people waiting for their autograph, even if…

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If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier…

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Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then…

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So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the…

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Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from…

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Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion…

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Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running…

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“We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to…

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To view space as, "Well, let's go to Mars now," or "Let's do this now," maybe we should rethink of space as…

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“In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay…

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But my vote for Venus's most peculiar feature is the presence of craters that are all relatively young and uniformly distributed over…

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“There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument from ignorance.” This is how it goes.…

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“In the twentieth century, astrophysicists in the United States discovered galaxies, the expanding of the universe, the nature of supernovas, quasars, black…

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We went to the moon and discovered Earth.

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When NASA dreams big America dreams big. People...kids say, 'I want to do that when I grow up'. Because you want to…

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Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and…

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Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

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“Collectively, these findings tell us it’s conceivable that life began on Mars and later seeded life on Earth, a process known as…

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The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our…

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The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.

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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

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If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.

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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…

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources…

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They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,…

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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…

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You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't…

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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…

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The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,…

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Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop…

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