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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not oil paint. So let me say yes, it would be acrylic house paint, which, when it dries, peels very nicely. So let's go with that.
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Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science.
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I'm not hard to find. I'm all over the Internet.
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I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident that they will embrace the message and tools and discovery of science in a way that can transform our culture and even our civilization.
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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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The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.
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Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.
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When you're enlightened, you don't have to reference other people, because you yourself are enlightened. And that's a better Earth. People can make more informed decisions politically, culturally, personally.
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Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.
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Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far.
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Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.
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Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.
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You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?
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Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good at science in school. Science is around you. Once you know and embrace that fact, it might stimulate curiosity within you to learn more about the natural world.
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The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.
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The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.
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We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.
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I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.
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It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.
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We went to the moon and discovered Earth.
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