Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes


When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.


Citations

Tyson, Neil deGrasse. Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier. W. W. Norton & Company, 2012.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Born: October 5, 1958
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Scientist

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator.