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When curiosity meets the cosmos, Tyson’s reflections cut straight to the heart of what it means to truly know something. This set of 18 nuggets captures his blend of scientific rigor and plain‑spoken wonder, giving you a quick dose of perspective for any moment you’re questioning the world.

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I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.

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As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.

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'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge…

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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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Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't…

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It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or…

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In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of…

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The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to…

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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'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist'…

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My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when…

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These are two different exercises. One of them is, "You don't know and I know, so just shut up and listen," and…

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Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth…

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You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically…

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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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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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I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one…

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There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for…

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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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We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every…

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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…

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