James Leonard

“Earth is instead a giant killing machine. Holding aside all the climactic and geologic forces that would just as soon have you dead, such as droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes, there's no end of creatures that want to suck your blood, inject you with venom, infect your physiology, or simply eat you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

“The denial of climate change poses an existential threat to the stability of civilization— a position that lands squarely amid conservative platforms, although there's been some progress over the years. Initially, the conservative battle cry was denial, which later morphed into an admission that climate change is real, but humans aren't causing it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

“Humans are not the deadliest animal against humans. That distinction goes not to lions or tigers or bears. Nor to snakes or sharks. It goes to mosquitoes, carriers of the viral infections yellow fever, dengue, and especially the parasite malaria, itself killing more than half a million people per year, mostly young children.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

“In the US, arguments rage over how much control we grant to state and federal lawmakers over the uteruses of its citizens. Some demographics feel strongly that pregnant people should not have the right to terminate their pregnancy after the first six weeks, around the time you can first detect a heartbeat via ultrasound.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization