Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.

Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn’t change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

I'm not hard to find. I'm all over the Internet.

Does the full moon affect people's behavior, you ask? Yup. It makes people think the full moon affects people's behavior.

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all.