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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of ideas about our place in the universe has been a long series of let-downs for those who like to believe we are special.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.
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I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
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For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies.
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I am not the most annoying person to bring to a movie 'cause I basically hold it in and write about it later or tweet about it. The most annoying people to bring to movies, I think we all agree, are those who read the book first.
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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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The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
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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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In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.
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As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.
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When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions.
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The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.
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Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.
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You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.
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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
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Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.
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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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We went to the moon and discovered Earth.
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world
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