'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.
All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
All the nine-planet people out there Get over it. There's eight.
Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.
As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!
As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.
Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
How much would you pay to launch our economy? How much would you pay for the universe?
I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.
I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.
I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.
If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.
