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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.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.
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Only when you question does society move or advance at all.
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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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Revelation replaced investigation.
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Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different.
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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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