Jesus Christ rose up from the tomb. Well, he's the son of God, and now he's like God's spirit at this point. Why would a spirit need to move a rock? Why not just pass through the rock? But also, why wait for the guards to go to sleep?

One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle.

Thomas Jefferson basically secularized Jesus.

As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.

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

I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring him into the present to hang out with me. See, that might be terrifying because his head will just explode once he sees everything that was derived from his discoveries, but I'd spend more time with someone who I think is one of the most brilliant minds our species has ever known.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.