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We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to put military bases on Mars, we'd be at Mars in two years. That would be quick. I don't want that to be the reason.
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The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.
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The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.
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So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.
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WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming.
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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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I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.
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If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.
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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.
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Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?
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I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
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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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In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.
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The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.
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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
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Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will rise until it matches the 3,000-degree rarified outer layers of the expanded Sun.... But not to worry. We will surely go extinct for some other reason long before this scenario unfolds.
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If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go.
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If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.
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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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