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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.
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Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain you. And if you cherry-pick this fact, you are left thinking that earth is some haven for life, but 96, 97 percent of all species that ever lived on earth are now extinct from the actions of the earth itself and an occasional asteroid to stir the pot.
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I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.
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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.
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People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back.
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The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.
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I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory tower and then there's everybody else, and I never could buy into that wall that's been put up by so many people over the decades and even the centuries.
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When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26.
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The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.
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All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
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A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.
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On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.
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We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.
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How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, I wasn't trained for this! That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!
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Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.
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The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.
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Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
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Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.
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