"Pretending to know everything closes the door to……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there."
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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 Closes Quotes
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Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
— Dean Acheson
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he…
— Alfred Tarski
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An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
— Marilyn vos Savant
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Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a…
— Bryan Adams
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Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.
— Unknown Author
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Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your…
— Leon Brown
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Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the…
— William Carlos Williams
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Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never…
— Helen Keller
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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time…
— Rose Macaulay
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All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence.…
— Richard G. Scott
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