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The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's

The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moving, Caves, Might
Source: collider.com

The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Country, Fun, Powerful
Interview with Don Cohen, appel.nasa.gov. June 1, 2008.

Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, "If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send a geologist or do you want to send a robot?" Well, the real answer is, you can send 100 robots for the price of sending one geologist, so let's send 100 robots to 100 different locations, and then we would all benefit. So that's the answer you would get. And I agree with that answer.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Real, Want, Location
Source: bookriot.com

We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find out, "Well, this works because there's certain regimes we've never tested it in." Had we done so, we would show that it didn't work: For example, at very high speeds, very high gravity, Newton's laws fail. They just fail. You need Einstein's laws of motion and gravity. Those would be his special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity. Now you invoke those and it works.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moon, Law, Special
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Clouds, Dust, Years
Source: www.pbs.org

Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moon, Views, Mind Blowing

Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious, Science, Looks

Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that if they just have everybody learning what is, they're not going to be in a position to invent a tomorrow because their brain isn't even wired to go in that direction.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Technology, Innovation, Brain
Source: www.denofgeek.com

You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Writing, Life Experience
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Might
"I am Neil deGrasse Tyson - AMA". Reddit.com, November 13, 2011.

Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if it means they make a mess of your kitchen or living room. It's all about your perspective on these things. Let them play. When you do, the kids do not have to be reintroduced to ways of questioning nature, and the task of promoting science would be a trivial exercise.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Children, Mean, Kids

Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support faith, everyone goes to it and points to it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Believe, Support, Have Faith
Source: www.esquire.com

When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dream, Thinking, Law
Source: www.pbs.org

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson
People, Disease, Medical
Twitter post from Nov 28, 2014

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Animal, Empathy, Feelings

Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moon, Thinking, People

It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moon, Thinking, One Day

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Citizens, Scientist, Paradigm

You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Hero, Matter, Way
Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Taken, Adventure, Animal

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
People, Artistic, Output
"Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘When A Nation Dreams Big, Its Citizenry Dreams Big’". Interview with Cara Santa Maria, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2012.

Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But nobody's ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody's ever named a high school after a robot. So when I don my public-educator hat, I have to recognize the elements of exploration that excite people. It's not only the discoveries and the beautiful photos that come down from the heavens; it's the vicarious participation in discovery itself.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Beautiful, School, Discovery

You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Newton, Theory, Cases
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Technology, Innovation, Cameras
"Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Inspirational, Motivational, Energy
Twitter post from Dec 19, 2011

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