When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study the universe just like me - how could they not? This naivetรฉ is what tells me that my interest was more a calling than a rational comparative assessment about what to be when I grew up.
Neil deGrasse TysonTo get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it.
Neil deGrasse TysonIn modern times, if the sole measure of whatโs out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.
Neil deGrasse TysonYou can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend.
Neil deGrasse TysonCivilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern astrophysics, and time became well understood going back billions of years. So enlightened religious people, as a necessity, had to shed the magical elements of the Bible. A little known fact is that Thomas Jefferson did just that. There's something called the Jefferson Bible. It's not widely publicized because it sort of conflicts with certain people's ideas of what the founding fathers were.
Neil deGrasse Tyson