Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

We will support the long-term economic development of new, innovative activities in the space and satellite industries as a key high-tech sector for Luxembourg.

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

Canada and space are a natural fit.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.

By reigniting the exploration role of our government Lewises and Clarks within and enabled by the infrastructure and economic drive of commercial space and the people themselves, this nation can rise to heights unimaginable.

Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.

Federal research is vital to the innovation that drives our local economy and global competitiveness.

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.

For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies.

The first trillionaire can be made in space.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

Apollo wasn't just about sending people into space. It transformed so much of our economy. From our education system to so many of the things we use today, it was a vision that led to the total transformation of the planet.

You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago.

Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.