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Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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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…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

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You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had…

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No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they…

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Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't want to go back into space for military reasons, but the economic driver still remains. And so it's a matter…

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There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was…

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Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if…

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Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, "If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send…

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It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I…

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As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And…

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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…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The miniaturization of electronics, which ultimately was driven by the marketplace, was started by NASA, because it costs money to get something…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in…

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It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself.…

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I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they…

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Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)…

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Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson