Neil Degrasse Tyson Space Exploration Quotes & Sayings

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The National Air and Space Museum is unlike any other place on this planet. If you're hosting visitors from another country and they want to know what single museum best captures what it is to be American, this is the museum you take them to. Here they can see the 1903 Wright Flyer, the 1927 Spirit of St. Louis, the 1926 Goddard rocket, and the Apollo 11 command module - silent beacons of exploration, of a few people willing to risk their lives for the sake of discovery. Without — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The cosmic perspective reminds us that in space, where there is no air, a flag will not wave - an indication that perhaps flag waving and space exploration do not mix. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson