Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

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

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at all. What you're saying is you're taking the Bible's account as literally true in need of a scientific explanation rather than just people coming up with stuff to fulfill their religious missions.

All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story.

Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.