Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

The most successful people are so original.

Space is going to be commonplace.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

The fascination to go into space has existed for hundreds of years. But as we do things and they're successful, people get bored.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first - so everyone is always looking.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

I've always wanted to do things different, always wanted to be the person who stands out from the pack.

I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.

I feel like I wanted to run differently than everybody else did. And I want to do things that everybody else hasn't done.

We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.

I always aspired to do something different.

It's like everybody try to sound the same exact way because they think it's going to get them some fame, but nah. You've got to be different.