"'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Bad Ass Quotes #Two Quotes #Space Quotes

“Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.”
“I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.”
“We live but a fraction of our lives.”
“I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.”
“Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.”
“Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.”
“The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.”

Source : Charles Evans Hughes (2000). “The Supreme Court of the United States: Its Foundation, Methods and Achievements”, p.103, Beard Books
“How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.”

Source : "The Scourge Of Teleprompters" by Jack Valenti, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 1984.

You may also like:

Ann Druyan
Author
Bill Nye
Educator
Carl Sagan
Astronomer
Lawrence M. Krauss
Physicist
Michio Kaku
Physicist
Richard Dawkins
Ethologist
Sam Harris
Author
Seth MacFarlane
Actor
Stephen Hawking
Physicist