Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes - Page 16

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• We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

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  Earth, Make Me Smile, Ends

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we should all strive-the future health, wealth, and security of our democracy depend on it. Until that is achieved, we are at risk of making under-informed decisions that affect ourselves, our communities, our country, and even the world.

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  Country, Future, Science

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Sounds The Alarm Over Science Illiteracy, And For Good Reason" By David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2015.

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• UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!

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  Flying, Religion, Facts

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• With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem.

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  Exercise, Use It Or Lose It, Space

  "Can We Make It To Mars?". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. January 19, 2011.

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• So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

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  Life Changing, Thinking, People

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• 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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  Fall, Science, Balls

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• The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

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  Space, Calendars, Cosmic

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.

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  Mars, Earth, Form

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Funks The Universe’ VIDEO Makes Rap Out Of Physics Conversation", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2013.

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• We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe - we call these singularities - Einstein's equations fail. In fact, people have joked that's where God is dividing by zero.

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  Zero, People, Black

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The miniaturization of electronics, which ultimately was driven by the marketplace, was started by NASA, because it costs money to get something into orbit. So you want to trim your electronics, miniaturize your electronics, miniaturize your satellites.

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  Orbit, Cost, Electronics

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.

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  Civilization, Dumb, Aliens

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'". "Here And Now" with Jeremy Hobson, kuow.org. March 6, 2014.

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• In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.

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  Children, Years, Want

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview with Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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• So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

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  Religious, Science, Knowing

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.345, W. W. Norton & Company

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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 still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so

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  Optimistic, Thinking, Bad Ass

  "A Conversation about Communicating Science". "The Science Studio" with Roger Bingham, www.youtube.com. January 20, 2011.

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• Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

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  Fighting, Technology, Community

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• Do you realize that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA. And so when someone says, 'We don't have enough money for this space probe.' No, it's not that you don't have enough money. It's that the distribution of money that you're spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.

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  Running, Dream, Future

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• Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

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  Seductive, Done, Practicals

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• The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.

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  Philosophy, Important, Movement

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• I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

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  Fate, Mind, Body

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.

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  Democracy, Denial, Moments

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• If the people of Comic-Con ruled the world...then tomorrow would be invented every day.

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  People, Would Be, World

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• I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

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  Morning, Smell, Simple Life

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2013

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• By the way, how much does NASA cost? It's half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? ... The most powerful agency on the dreams of a nation is currently underfunded to do what it needs to be doing, and that's making dreams come true ... How much would you pay for the universe?

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  Dream, Powerful, Agency

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• Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.

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  Beach, Hunting, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.

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  Quests, Eternal

  Source: collider.com

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