A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think about it, so that later on when someone says, "Tell me about x, y, z," they don't have to say, "I know this because Tyson told me." No, they'll say, "Here's why it's true because I know and understand it."

I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe

America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin

In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new physical phenomenon that we have yet to discover and have now discovered in that moment than it is a spiritual force coming down from God making something happen in front of you.