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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at all. What you're saying is you're taking the Bible's account as literally true in need of a scientific explanation rather than just people coming up with stuff to fulfill their religious missions.
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I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world-the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.
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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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The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.
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