I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

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

Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in the educational pipeline. It's vital to our prosperity and security.

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.