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Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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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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It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.
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There are two ways you can receive energy from your environment: One is molecules bumping against you. That's the air. The other is radiative energy. That's what you're feeling from the sun. When they say Get out of the sun, out of the heat, the air is the same temperature it's just you're exposed to sunlight.
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I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a librettist for Broadway musicals.
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You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.
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The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.
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Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.
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The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as we go forward. So even if you're not enchanted by the prospect of cosmic discovery, the prospect of dying poor may be what it takes to understand the role of this adventure in the future of the natural world in which we live.
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Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.
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I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
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Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.
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The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
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So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube. To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die (e.g., homicide, suicide, electrocution, suffocation, starvation) we add the term spaghettification.
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We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.
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