after all he is the sexiest astronomer on the planet.

If space is so expensive & so useless, and is such a waste of money, why go through all that trouble?

Because they know what Dr Tyson knows.

How fortunate that we have such an intelligent, eloquent person in this man's position.

Julie

and Dr. DeGrasse Tyson does such a fabulous job of articulating the importance of science and investment in science.

When I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up — many people feel small, ’cause they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.

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. Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct.

he also has a wonderful sense of humor. I have seen him on Colbert many times. He is one of the few that can go head to head with Colbert in regards to humor.

Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberley Academy - 2010-Jan-29

Great interview.

at wikiquote: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson

The nice thing of wikiquote is that all the quotes are referenced.

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.
"Letter to the Editor". New York Times. December 21, 2006. Retrieved on 2010-12-07.