It's one thing to be ignorant ...

" ... but if you're ignorant AND indignant, I'm going to be all up in your situation."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on including those who insist the earth is just 6000 years old

on risk

(Image of a sky aircraft carrier)

"The day you stop making mistakes is the day you're not on the frontier."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

trial and error

"If you make no mistakes, you're not on the frontier."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

boom

"If nothing goes wrong, you're not on the frontier."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

astrophysicist

"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

physics superheros

“Understanding is a kind of ecstasy”
- Brian Cox quoting Carl Sagan

Ch-Check It Out

An earlier reference to Neil deGrasse Tyson here.

things in common

"My ultimate goal is to invent something as simple as the Venn Diagram."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Two thirds of the stars in the night sky have Arabic names."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium

Image source here.

"The universe will go dark in a quadrillion years."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"The world will be here with or without us, until the sun dies, 5 billion years hence. At that point, the sun's atmosphere will have expanded to engulf the entire orbits of Mercury, Venus and Earth, which will have become charred embers spiraling, one by one, to the crucible that is the sun's core."
 - Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History

Image source here.

2029

Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson [born 1958] anticipates that the earth could be destroyed in 2029 by an en route asteroid, unless intervening action is untaken now.

Here he discusses cosmic yoga: