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The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.
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The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.
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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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You know, dark matter matters.
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Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
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The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.
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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
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You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
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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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Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world
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As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.
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Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.
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I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.
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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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When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.
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The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.
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