The Pluto Files Quotes

“When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet

“the stated authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet

“This leads me to ask how it came to be that Pluto is Mickey’s dog, but Mickey is not Pluto’s mouse. Something is awry in the taxonomic class of mammals in the Disney universe. I”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet