The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your... →
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how... →
The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room.... →
I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and... →
In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to... →
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and... →