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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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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange.…
— Victor Hugo
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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all…
— Christopher Columbus
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Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
— Albert Claude
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That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking,…
— Walter Mosley
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Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy,…
— Gary Wolf
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