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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: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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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 you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
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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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95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin.
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What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way will we know whether our home life is normal or whether we live in a dysfunctional solar family.
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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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After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?
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If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles.
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There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.
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In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder].
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Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.
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Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
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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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We still refer to sunrise, sunset. That only has meaning if you think that Earth is in the center of things, and everything is moving around us. So even though we know intellectually Earth goes around the sun, the language is still pre-Copernican, as we would call it.
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On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.
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The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.
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If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.
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Who you are, where you've been and what you've done is all up here, captured and preserved in your memories. If you lost that - the story of your own origins - you'd lose your identity, your sense of self.
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We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
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Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).
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