If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.

Neil Degrasse Tyson
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  1. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. - Napoleon Hill

  2. Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. - Epictetus

  3. If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish. - Steve Maraboli

  4. It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal. - Steve Maraboli

  5. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. - William Faulkner

More Quotes By Neil Degrasse Tyson
  1. The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they...

  2. We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

  3. The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars- the high mass ones...

  4. 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.

  5. I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

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