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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.
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You can get an Egg McMuffin all day you just can't get the hamburger all day.
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Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.
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Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?
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Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions.
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The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.
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Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.
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I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.
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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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The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as we go forward. So even if you're not enchanted by the prospect of cosmic discovery, the prospect of dying poor may be what it takes to understand the role of this adventure in the future of the natural world in which we live.
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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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You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths
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The universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we’ve got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it’s one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it’s countless other universes.
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You know, dark matter matters.
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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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Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
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How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, I wasn't trained for this! That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!
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