Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I know aliens from other worlds are required to arrive in New Mexico, but why stay there?

The Martians are always coming.

That's starting to depress me about UFOs. The fact that they cross galaxies...and always end up in places like Fyfe, Alabama.

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

You get out there in space and say to yourself: that's home. That's the only home we have, and the only one we're going to have for a long time

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls.

The universe for me was other planets and other star systems and other galaxies. I enjoyed tracking it, but it had no specific influence on my ambitions for that reason. It wasn't really far enough away from Earth to matter to me.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was.

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.

The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats.

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

If anything, when you're up in space and you're inside a space ship, which is your home, and without which you would not survive, you know that Earth is your home. This is the only place you can return. In fact we're very meticulous. Part of our job is to maintain the spaceship. If we apply the same kind of model to Earth maybe we'd have a different outlook.

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Development of the space station is as inevitable as the rising of the sun; man has already poked his nose into space and he is not likely to pull it back . . . . There can be no thought of finishing, for aiming at the stars-both literally and figuratively-is the work of generations, and no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, and to carry us to the stars.

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.

We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.

Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.