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I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: October 5
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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.
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For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.
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Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different.
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Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.
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For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies.
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I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up.
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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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You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths
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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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Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
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Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
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One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.
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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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You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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