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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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I don't want to go back into space for military reasons, but the economic driver still remains. And so it's a matter of people understanding how that economic driver is revealed with healthy investments on the space frontier.
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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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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'
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Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.
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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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God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
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I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.
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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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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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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.
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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.
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I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
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