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85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
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The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
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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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Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence.
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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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The past is another planet.
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Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.
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We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all.
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