Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes - Page 17

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• Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick up a quarter from the sidewalk, but not a dime, then the corresponding amount of money given their relative wealth that Bill Gates would ignore if he saw it lying on the street is $25,000.

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  Lying, Science, Average

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.301, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• Revelation replaced investigation.

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  Revelations, Investigation, Replaced

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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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• A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.

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  Data, Battle, Cry

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• When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.

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  Discovery, Knowing, Path

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• 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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  Science, Hair, Balls

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• The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

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  Tombstone, Airplane, Asteroids

  "We Can Survive Killer Asteroids — But It Won't Be Easy". www.wired.com. April 02, 2012.

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• I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky.

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  Moon, Sky, Fans

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.110, Prometheus Books

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• Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?

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  Technology, People, Wonder

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Some memories are best absorbed through your eyes in real time, even if you have no record of it later. Because then you can access that memory and how you felt in that moment. If you're looking at your cellphone screen, taking a video of something that is otherwise unforgettable, watching it later will not recover the emotion you would have had, had you witnessed it directly.

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  Memories, Real, Eye

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all species of Earth life than any two species of Earth life are from each other.

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  Earth Life, Two, Different

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.306, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

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  Car, Would Be, Neptune

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on killing Pluto: 'All I did was drive the getaway car'" by Thomas Houston, www.theverge.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

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  Ideas, Answers, Driven

  Reddit AMA, November 13, 2011.

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• If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at all. What you're saying is you're taking the Bible's account as literally true in need of a scientific explanation rather than just people coming up with stuff to fulfill their religious missions.

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  Religious, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

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  Space, Rivals, Exploration

  "'Space Chronicles': Why Exploring Space Still Matters". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. February 27, 2012.

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• I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

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  Teacher, Inspiration, People

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• It would be amazing if something completely spiritual sounding happened. Oh, my gosh! We'd be all over it. Because it's something new about the physical universe.

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  Spiritual, Would Be, Something New

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.

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  Hard Work, Thinking, People

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air", listen.sdpb.org. February 28, 2014.

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• When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

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  Believe, Discovery, Belief

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2010). “The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

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  Ambition, Space, Want

  Interview with Don Cohen, appel.nasa.gov. June 1, 2008.

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• The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

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  Moon, Adjectives, Inches

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• Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which might one day render Earth as dry and lifeless as Mars. (From the cover of Old Poison by Joan Francis)

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  Running, Oasis, Long Ago

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• I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

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  Stars, Science, Missing

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• Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

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  Philosophy, Ignorance, Intelligent

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