"There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems."
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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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More Afro Quotes
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Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to…
— William Wells Brown
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The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being.…
— Malcolm X
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans…
— Thurgood Marshall
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I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps…
— Malcolm X
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Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was…
— Helen McCrory
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In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really…
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the…
— Harryette Mullen
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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man…
— Ida B. Wells
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
— Ida B. Wells
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It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the…
— Malcolm X
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Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch…
— Colson Whitehead
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I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be…
— Miriam Makeba
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