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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
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Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.
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You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.
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Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.
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Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.
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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.
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I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.
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I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.
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The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.
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Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.
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I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make that's in my direct center.
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Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
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The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
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The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.
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Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
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