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There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page, others did, and I'm flattered that people cared enough about my life to assemble it - and it said, 'Neil deGrasse is an atheist.' -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm fascinated by politics. I love watching everyone from Neil deGrasse Tyson to Lawrence Krauss to people like Richard Dawkins and Noam Chomsky on YouTube. -- Michael Buble
I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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