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The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different.
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It's my duty to enlighten people.
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Right now people think God is dark energy and dark matter, the spirit. Go ahead and think that, but the day we can tell you exactly what it is - that it's gremlins in the vacuum of space or whatever - then what's your recourse at that point?
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A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years. It releases as much energy in an instant as our sun will produce over its 10-billion-year lifetime.
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Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.
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You know, dark matter matters.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Thomas Jefferson basically secularized Jesus.
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Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.
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Some air you inhale was exhaled by Cleopatra.
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If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.
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Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.
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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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There are two ways you can receive energy from your environment: One is molecules bumping against you. That's the air. The other is radiative energy. That's what you're feeling from the sun. When they say Get out of the sun, out of the heat, the air is the same temperature it's just you're exposed to sunlight.
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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.
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Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
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You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?
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