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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle.
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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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The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.
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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.
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Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.
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It's better to understand something than to memorize something.
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
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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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I as an astrophysicist, see the universe, feel the universe, smell the universe every day. Every day. And for people to say, I'm cool, I'm right here, it's all I need.
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In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.
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One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.
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If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.
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Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.
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Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.
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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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Because we all just function, the rest of us, just go to work and come home artists make life bearable. They give perspectives on things we never knew you could have. They bring joy. They explore inner human emotion, and at its best, the full dynamic range of that emotion.
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The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.
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I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.
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