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All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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I always wanted to be respected for my mind.
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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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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This universe knows about me and my crops.
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I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.
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Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
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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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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.
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George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is the God who named the stars. The problem is: two-thirds of all stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. That would confound the point that he was making.
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Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.
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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
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UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.
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When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.
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Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
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People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.
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If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
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Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.
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