I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
Mike Tyson
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote... →
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is... →
So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment... →
Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened... →
The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was... →