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Firsts Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- 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…
- Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not…
- You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups... Children are not the problem here... We spend the…
- I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem…
- There's a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts…
- If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
- The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
- People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's…
- We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong