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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies.
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I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.
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Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.
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Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.
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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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You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths
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I'm not hard to find. I'm all over the Internet.
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The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.
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My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.
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If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
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With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.
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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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For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.
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For the film to 'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.
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I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets.
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When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.
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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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I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?
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In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.
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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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