If NASA were advancing a space frontier there would be challenges you've never seen before. You have to be creative and you have to patent some new idea. You get to Mars...well, how do we get the water from the soil? I gotta invent a new device that will do that. And the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, how can we use that? Can we breathe the oxygen from the carbon dioxide?
Neil deGrasse TysonWe have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.
Neil deGrasse TysonAs 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 TysonFor the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.
Neil deGrasse Tyson