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Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.
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As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
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The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
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You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.
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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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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
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The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.
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Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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