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“In that first of nine such [Project Apollo] missions, our goal was to explore the moon, but while doing so, we looked back over our shoulders and discovered Earth for the first time.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

“If you travel beyond the cave door, you may just discover things that help solve your cave problems.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

“We are more likely to be swayed by a single person who testifies with passion than by a bar chart containing data compiled from thousands of people.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

“In the universe, two or more seemingly contradictory facts can be simultaneously true. How about on Earth? Can you be both male and female? Can you be neither? Can you move fluidly between being a man and a woman? Is your sexual preference fluid too? Maybe we're all male-female qubits. Such questions are hard for some people to grasp, embedded in a culture that sees the world as a landscape of rigid categories, where things must be one or the other, and not fall on a continuum.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization