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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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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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Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system.
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Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.
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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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Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support faith, everyone goes to it and points to it.
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I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with whatever everyone else does.
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The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.
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Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.
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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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Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.
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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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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand
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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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People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.
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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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Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.
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Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.
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