"Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight."
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"When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine."
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"He's out here, somewhere, and he wants you dead,' she said. 'Him as killed your family. Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us. Come home, Bod."
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"If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it."
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"Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things."
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"I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written."
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"When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it."
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"I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane."
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"I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking."
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"In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet."
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"If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans."
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"I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not the sky as it is but the sky as he felt it. And the more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world."
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"The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?"
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"The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different than a scientist, who is simply wanting to learn."
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"I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or would not agree to. So in that regard, I'm kind of the opposite of a lobbyist."
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"America has an economy reversing relative to other nations in the world. And I want to turn that around. And one way I know to turn it around is to get everyone excited about what it is to innovate again."
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"I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, "Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?""
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"If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles."
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"Going to Comic-Con for me is always hard and weird, so it just makes me feel guilty. There's always a hundre thousand people out there who have copies of things that I've written and they really want signed and they're not going to get them signed."
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"I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I'm much more interested in the next thing, and in taking what I learned from the things that don't work, and applying them to new things that may work."
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