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The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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Astronomer
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Neil Tyson
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As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.
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I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to put military bases on Mars, we'd be at Mars in two years. That would be quick. I don't want that to be the reason.
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So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.
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Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.
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The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
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A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.
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When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
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I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not the sky as it is but the sky as he felt it. And the more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.
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No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things.
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The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.
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I always wanted to be respected for my mind.
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If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.
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Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.
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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.
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Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.
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You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.
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