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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s 25 observations on 'about' fuse astrophysical awe with everyday clarity. The collection invites readers to see the cosmos in the ordinary, all delivered in his engaging, accessible style.

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Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

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I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of…

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There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand…

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Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of…

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We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most…

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There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was…

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One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about…

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Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries…

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Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that…

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Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your…

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I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that…

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You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served…

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To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are…

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I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I…

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I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment.…

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I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and…

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Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang…

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I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody…

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I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page,…

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Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of…

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Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of,…

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You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash…

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Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if…

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The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are…

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There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows…

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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…

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The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.

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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

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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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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…

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources…

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They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,…

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