If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
Neil deGrasse TysonI want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.
Neil deGrasse TysonI lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.
Neil deGrasse TysonWe are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
Neil deGrasse Tyson