Out Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

12 Out quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson’s 12 statements about venturing into the unknown blend scientific curiosity with poetic wonder. This short set works as a handy primer for anyone wanting his view on what lies beyond.

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It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism.

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All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.

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I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only…

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The need to create a new taxonomy that isn't just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent…

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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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Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven…

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I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil…

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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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As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that…

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All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the…

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Every day, I wake up and I say, 'Why... how... did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?' It's freaky to…

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I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid…

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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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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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