Neil deGrasse Tyson On Aliens, Simulation Theory, and What Happens Inside A Black Hole

“So there are things much smaller than we are. In fact, I addressed some of that in, I wrote an alien book recently, Take Me to your Leader there's a lot in there about changing your perspective on what you might expect life forms to be like out there”

“If all schools were that, imagine how different the world would be. We can only imagine. Imagine. I have your book in front of me here. It's by the way, it's beautiful. And the title is great. It's called Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter. If you've ever wondered why there are so many UFO sightings, whether aliens might already be amongst us,”

“That's why I can look in the sky and say, wow, what is that? I don't know. I pull up binoculars, tools. Oh my gosh, it's a drone. And I can see it better with higher resolution and it's brighter. Oh, what is that over there? I don't know what that is on the horizon. Oh, it's a, it's a bear crawling on the side of the thing.”

“we are just a bunch of chemicals in a Petri dish somewhere that are creating a subjective experience? And that subjective experience manifests as a universe that I can see, this iPad that I can touch, but actually we are just a chemical reaction in a Petri dish that some aliens are doing.”

“who write books on this, okay? Richard Dawkins is among them. He wrote a book called The God Delusion. That's fighting words if there ever was one. These are people, who reject God, reject its influence on politics and society and lives, and would just as soon see a world without it.”