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Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe
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I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of prose and that, to me, distinguishes great writing from ordinary writing. By the way, I don't even claim that I'm good. I claim that I value it.
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The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.
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Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support faith, everyone goes to it and points to it.
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The past is another planet.
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How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, I wasn't trained for this! That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!
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The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.
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I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.
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There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.
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Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.
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Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
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As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.
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When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions.
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The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.
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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
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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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We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
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Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
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I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can't find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!
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