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Neil Degrasse Tyson Inspirational Quotes (388)

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Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.
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I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.
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I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
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There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.
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On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)
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The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.
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A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years. It releases as much energy in an instant as our sun will produce over its 10-billion-year lifetime.
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Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.
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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.
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If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.
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Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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It's my duty to enlighten people.
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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
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I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.
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In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.
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I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.
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All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
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I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.
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When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
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I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.
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So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
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