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13 Us quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson turns his cosmic curiosity toward the human collective. Though only thirteen snippets, they spark wonder about how we fit into the larger universe.

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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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Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.

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Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet…

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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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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are,…

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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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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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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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Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem.…

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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would…

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I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an…

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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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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just…

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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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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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