Neil deGrasse Tyson citations

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Halley shattered their monopoly, beating them at their own game. A game that no scientist had every played before: Prophecy.
Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey (2014)

Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.
Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey (2014)

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.
Planétarium Hayden

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Source: The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

2000s
Contexte: 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.

2010s
Contexte: 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.

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

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

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

2000s
Source: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Contexte: Yes, the universe had a beginning. Yes, the universe continues to evolve. And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnace within high-mass stars. We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out — and we have only just begun.

Source: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)

Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger (May 21, 2009)

Let There Be Light, Natural History Magazine, October 2003, 2010-12-07 http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2003/10/01/let-there-be-light,
2000s

Nerdist podcast, Episode #489 http://www.nerdist.com/2014/03/nerdist-podcast-neil-degrasse-tyson-returns-again/ (2014-04)
2010s

Testimonial at "2006 Beyond Belief Conference": Minute 1:16, 2006, 2010-12-07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rr-jyg0MyI,
2000s

Let There Be Dark, Natural History Magazine, October 2002, 2018-24-03 http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/read/2002/10/01/let-there-be-dark,
2000s