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18 I can quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s talks frequently start with a bold claim of what can be understood. This collection of 18 statements showcases his knack for making complex ideas feel within reach.

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I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

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Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.

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When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody.

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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.…

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Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew…

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I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to…

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How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from…

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This past year, we received our second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Series. While we'd all like to win, I can say…

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As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I…

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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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There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my…

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I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try…

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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…

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I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A…

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It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the…

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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…

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I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's…

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As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science,…

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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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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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