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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
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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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Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.
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If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.
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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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One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.
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The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.
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Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.
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Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
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If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.
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Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.
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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 the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.
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