"It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!"
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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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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers.…
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My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics.…
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We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing.…
— Helen Alfredsson
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My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a…
— Dennis Miller
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...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding…
— Anatoliy Golitsyn
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There has been a vigorous acceleration of health, resource and education programs designed to advance the role of the American…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are…
— Al Gore
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Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he…
— Neal Asher
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I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer…
— Aldous Huxley
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It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there…
— William Irwin Thompson
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As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a…
— Charles Francis Richter
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To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept,…
— Arthur Honegger
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