Neil deGrasse Tyson : (7)

" If you’re going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it’ll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it’s expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can’t get investors. " - Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You’re not. " - Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids. " - Neil deGrasse Tyson

" As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn’t really overturn a science paradigm. " - Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we’re twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It’s bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well. " - Neil deGrasse Tyson

" I’ve spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I’m an academic. Being an academic means I don’t wield power over person, place or thing. I don’t command armies; I don’t lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought. " - Neil deGrasse Tyson

" As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don’t know it at the time. " - Neil deGrasse Tyson