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I always wanted to be respected for my mind.
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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The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.
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Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
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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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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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Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite athletic at the time, probably because I was bigger than other kids, and if you're bigger than other kids and you're 11 you win everything.
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I don't need my name anywhere.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.
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If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
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We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.
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Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.
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One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.
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If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.
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As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
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What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?
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The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.
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