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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.
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It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.
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You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.
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I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
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We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.
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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 I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody.
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If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.
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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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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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I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a bit that science has achieved this level of public interest and access. And so I'm simultaneously astonished every day upon recognizing this, and I think it's a good sign for the country and possibly for the world.
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Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.
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We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
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