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Tyson loves to quantify curiosity, and his musings on wanting more reflect a cosmic perspective. Fourteen short statements reveal his blend of wonder and logic.

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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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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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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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If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay…

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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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I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is…

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If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as…

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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…

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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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We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for…

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Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small…

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One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with…

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The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of…

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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that…

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I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to…

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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…

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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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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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Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good…

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The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science,…

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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…

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