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It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in the majesty of the cosmos. I use words, compose sentences that sound like the sentences I hear out of people that had revelation of Jesus, who go on their pilgrimages to Mecca.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon.
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Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.
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