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“I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos.”

Testimonial at "2006 Beyond Belief Conference": Minute 0:04, 2006, 2010-12-07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rr-jyg0MyI,
2000s

“Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.”

Comment on "I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA", November 13, 2011 http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/c2zg3g6,
2010s
Variant: Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of the kids. They out-number kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.

“Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.”

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.”

2000s
Context: No matter who you are, engaging in the quest to discover where and how things began tends to induce emotional fervor—as if knowing the beginning bestows upon you some form of fellowship with, or perhaps governance over, all that comes later. So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.”

2010s
Context: Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here’s a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn’t understand [and now we do understand] [... ]. If that’s how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that’s how you want to come at the problem.

“Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.”

Source: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”

At an interview with Stephen Colbert at Montclair Kimberley Academy on January 29th, 2010.
2010s