I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.
Neil deGrasse TysonI dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
Neil deGrasse TysonThe limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.
Neil deGrasse TysonAsteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.
Neil deGrasse TysonI see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.
Neil deGrasse Tyson