Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

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• The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they…
• With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born.…
• The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or…
• After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do…
• Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you…
• I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The…
• 'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International…
• Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
• I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a…
• In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we…
• On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so…
• Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon…
• There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth…
• If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball.…
• You ask people, do you pray to a person or God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your…
• Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of…
• It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?
• I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally…
• I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.
• I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to…

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