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Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.
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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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I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.
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Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.
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The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?
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No one is dumb who is curious.
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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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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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The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
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I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.
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There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.
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Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do, to the benefit of us all.
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Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.
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After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?
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If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
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America has an economy reversing relative to other nations in the world. And I want to turn that around. And one way I know to turn it around is to get everyone excited about what it is to innovate again.
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Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.
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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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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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When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.
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