"We didn't build the interstate system to connect……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads."
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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 Angeles Quotes
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My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I…
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I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything…
— Saul Bellow
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that…
— Wilford Brimley
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Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems…
— Carter Burwell
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I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.
— Nicolas Cage
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From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore.…
— Steve Carell
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If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go…
— Adam Carolla
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Everything moves a little quicker in Los Angeles.
— Kyle Chandler
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When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted…
— Kelly Clarkson
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