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I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our existence as a blip on the intelligence radar. They could be so advanced that we are to them what worms are to us.
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Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.
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I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.
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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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Only when you question does society move or advance at all.
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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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When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
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I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves.
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I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make that's in my direct center.
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I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to put military bases on Mars, we'd be at Mars in two years. That would be quick. I don't want that to be the reason.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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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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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.
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I have thoughts every day that are themselves tweets.
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We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
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When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.
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