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If I'm looking fit and I'm not, then I'm cheating.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
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Thomas Jefferson basically secularized Jesus.
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I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.
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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
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It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children
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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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We went to the moon and discovered Earth.
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I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.
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You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.
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Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
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The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.
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We are only intelligent by our own measures
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Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights.
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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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Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.
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Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.
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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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When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon.
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You know, there's black holes and what - could there be wormholes? Could - might there be a multi-verse? These are all fascinating frontiers. What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy? And what was around before the universe? And do we have access to higher dimensions?
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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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