"Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?"
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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375 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love,…
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the…
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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'…
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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet,…
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On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an…
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers.…
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I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss…
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform…
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.
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My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go…
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not…
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One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even…
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