Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming
'The NASA budget is four tenths of one penny on a tax dollar'
Science • March 2012 • Views: 2,879
“That was a cultural mindset that the space program brought upon us and we reaped the benefits of economic growth because you had people wanting to become scientists and engineers who are the people who enable tomorrow to exist today. And even if you are not a scientist or technologist you will value that activity, and that in the 21st century are the foundations of tomorrow’s economies and without it we might as well slide back to the cave because that’s where we’re headed right now, broke.”