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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: 65
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.
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Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.
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When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.
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I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.
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