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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.
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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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Thomas Jefferson basically secularized Jesus.
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So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
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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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Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.
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Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
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If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.
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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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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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I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.
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I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of prose and that, to me, distinguishes great writing from ordinary writing. By the way, I don't even claim that I'm good. I claim that I value it.
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There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example.
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I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
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Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.
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If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
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For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.
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Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.
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There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
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One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.
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