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Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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I always wanted to be respected for my mind.
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Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it.
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Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.
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You can get an Egg McMuffin all day you just can't get the hamburger all day.
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I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.
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Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain you. And if you cherry-pick this fact, you are left thinking that earth is some haven for life, but 96, 97 percent of all species that ever lived on earth are now extinct from the actions of the earth itself and an occasional asteroid to stir the pot.
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
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You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?
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If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.
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If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.
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Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support faith, everyone goes to it and points to it.
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If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.
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Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues to stick together, clumping into rocky asteroids, which eventually become orbiting rocky planets. And voila: a solar system!
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If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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