"I think the greatest of people in society……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight."
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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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In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the…
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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this…
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All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved…
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[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant…
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Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God,…
— Cyril of Jerusalem
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But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is…
— Horace Mann
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It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual…
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I would stay [in the newsroom] until 3 am "in case something happened." But I mostly had nothing to do…
— Eric Asimov
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved…
— Howard Zinn
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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
— Michelangelo
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There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a…
— Jim Carrey
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The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more…
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