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Neil deGrasse Tyson has 375 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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,…
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have…
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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…
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After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a…
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Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is…
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I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying…
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'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on…
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Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
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I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I…
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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…
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On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup…
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went…
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Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.
— Henri Bergson
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Everyone was at Martin Freeman’s house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freeman’s…
— Louise Brealey
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The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what…
— George Will
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Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature…
— David Deutsch
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Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical…
— Carrie P Snow
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Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
— W G Sebald
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They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man…
— Terry Pratchett
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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers…
— Carl Jung
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It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected…
— Robertson Davies
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[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.
— Peter Medawar
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Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the…
— Paul Cezanne
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There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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