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We are only intelligent by our own measures

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
Actor
Astronomer
Astrophysicist
Cosmologist
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Physicist
Science Communicator
Science Writer
Teacher
Trekkie
The Bronx
New York City
Neil Tyson
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The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats.
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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 Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.
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The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into the future are you willing to protect Homo sapiens on Earth? Before you answer that question, take a detour to Arizona's Meteor Crater during your next vacation.
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Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.
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Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.
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I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
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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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I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.
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Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).
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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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Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on “Big Bang Theory” lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe
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For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They would now be looking elsewhere. A more humbling possibility would be if aliens had become aware of the technologically proficient species that now inhabits Earth, yet they had drawn the same conclusion.
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My popularity does not derive from me pandering to people. People came to me. I don't tell anyone to follow me on Twitter. I don't tell people to like my Facebook page. I don't tell people to fill the venue. I'm offered to people, and then people come.
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