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In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.
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Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite athletic at the time, probably because I was bigger than other kids, and if you're bigger than other kids and you're 11 you win everything.
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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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When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.
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Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it.
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For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.
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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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Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.
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The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.
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Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights.
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Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
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The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.
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We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.
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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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To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?
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It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.
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Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.
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The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.
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