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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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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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So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube. To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die (e.g., homicide, suicide, electrocution, suffocation, starvation) we add the term spaghettification.
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Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.
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The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
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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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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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Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.
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Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?
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The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes let's explore so we can become more powerful.'
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You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?
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But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?
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Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence.
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Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.
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Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite athletic at the time, probably because I was bigger than other kids, and if you're bigger than other kids and you're 11 you win everything.
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For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
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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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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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It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.
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You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's noisy - but for you it's fun, you're resting. You're actually doing experiments... Just tell your parents that they're experiments, and you want to become a scientist, and then they won't stop you from doing anything you want.
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So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.
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