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No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?
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No one is dumb who is curious.
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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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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.
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I'm not hard to find. I'm all over the Internet.
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Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?
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WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming.
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When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist.
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... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?
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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
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Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.
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My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don't have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.
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You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups... Children are not the problem here... We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.
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If I'm looking fit and I'm not, then I'm cheating.
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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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When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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