Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes - Page 22

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• 'Cause a musician, you can't tell me, "I've got this message I want share with the public," and it's three-and-a-half minutes long. That's not it. If your message is only three-and-a-half minutes long, then we got nothing else to talk about. Because life is more complex than three-and-a-half minutes.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Long, Musician, Share

  Source: www.complex.com

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• In astrophysics, we care about how matter, motion and energy manifest in objects and phenomenon in the universe. Stars are born. They live out their lives. They die. Some of the ones that die explode. Our sun will not be one of those, but it will die. And it'll take Earth with us. So we make sure we have other destinations in mind when that happens. And I've got it on my calendar.

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  Stars, Mind, Energy

  "Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's one-man mission". "60 minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 22, 2015.

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• We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

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  Believe, People, Facts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it works and what was discovered and why it matters, but combines that with stunning visualizations of the cosmos. This has the chance of affecting you intellectually and emotionally, and as well as even spiritually, because the wonder and awe of the universe are especially potent when presented in this way."

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  Matter, Way, Doe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

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  Destiny, Earth, Littles

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• Pop culture is the scaffold we all carry around with us.

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  Culture, Pop Culture, Pops

  Source: bookriot.com

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• Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights.

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  Get Well, Vacation, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back.

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  People, Feelings, Robots

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy.

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  Technology, Thinking, Innovation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen. You become an innovation culture. When I grew up, every time I turned around it was, "Oh, here's the longest bridge or the deepest tunnel or the fastest airplane." And I originally thought that was just kind of like a pissing contest with men with too much testosterone. And then I realized that to make the tallest building you have to innovate. To make the fastest train you have to design the train in a way that it's never been designed before.

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  Airplane, Men, Bridges

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I don't live life to be remembered for anything.

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  Live Life, Remembered

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.

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  Airplane, Parent, Atmosphere

  "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 don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.

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  Numbers, People, Trying

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson On Exploring Cosmic Frontiers". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. March 2, 2012.

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• If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.

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  Pockets, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of prose and that, to me, distinguishes great writing from ordinary writing. By the way, I don't even claim that I'm good. I claim that I value it.

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  Writing, Trying, Care

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• There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one is, you're working hard up there. And the ones who say I'm working hard are teachers, they're the educators; they're the people who are the performers. It's a huge investment of my psycho-emotional energy to pull that off and to make it look smooth.

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  Teacher, Emotional, Two

  "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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• When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody.

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  Blame, Beats, Persons

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the end of America. It's a free market and you just put it on. The fact that science has not been on neck-and-neck with it means that people believe science could not compete on that level.

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  Believe, Mean, Reality

  Source: collider.com

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• A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.

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  Mean, Energy, Negative

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

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• Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.

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  Understanding, Failing, Theory

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker.

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  Thinking, America, People

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

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  Artist, Thinking, Inspire

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

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  Kind, Educated, Elitist

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Who you are, where you've been and what you've done is all up here, captured and preserved in your memories. If you lost that - the story of your own origins - you'd lose your identity, your sense of self.

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  Memories, Self, Identity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well.

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  Country, Strong, Technology

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being 'In Your Face'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. February 25, 2010.

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