"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."
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375 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson has 375 quotes on this site.
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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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More Congratulating Quotes
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Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in…
— Julie Burchill
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Religion today is not transforming people; rather it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher,…
— Unknown Author
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I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being…
— Tim Waterstone
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To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and…
— Gore Vidal
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Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you…
— Neville Goddard
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Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey…
— Bruce Babbitt
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Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met…
— Ian Mckellen
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
— William Hazlitt
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It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys.…
— Betty White
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We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.
— Sloane Crosley
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I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over…
— William Stafford
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