More quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination"
"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."
"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."
"The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don’t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He’ll use his word, and if I understand it, I’ll say, “Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?"
"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."