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The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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The past is another planet.
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I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a librettist for Broadway musicals.
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I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with whatever everyone else does.
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It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children
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Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.
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Only when you question does society move or advance at all.
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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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When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.
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This universe knows about me and my crops.
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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
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My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.
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Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.
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You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups... Children are not the problem here... We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.
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I'm not hard to find. I'm all over the Internet.
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Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.
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Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.
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Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.
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I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.
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