"Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green."
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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 Curiously Quotes
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one of 77 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously…
— Walt Kelly
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It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes…
— Francis Galton
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English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows,…
— Alan Coren
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When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the…
— Joseph Campbell
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
— Walter Pater
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Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
— Clay Shirky
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The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual…
— Charles Darwin
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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…
— Natalie Babbitt
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One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or…
— Carl Van Vechten
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on…
— Joseph Conrad
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Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do…
— Frederick H. Evans
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Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says…
— Paul de Man
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