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• I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Teaching, School

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

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• I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Successful, World, Predictions

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.183, Prometheus Books

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• NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers. We went to the moon because we were at war with the Soviet Union. And so when it became clear that they (Soviet Union) were not going to the moon, we're done with the moon.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  War, Moon, Unions

  "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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• The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science, which marches on and makes discoveries in those gaps, ultimately closing gaps.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ideas, Discovery, Gaps

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will rise until it matches the 3,000-degree rarified outer layers of the expanded Sun.... But not to worry. We will surely go extinct for some other reason long before this scenario unfolds.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sky, Long, Worry

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• They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Lonely, Religious, Science

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.353, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Morning, Kids, Thinking

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Character, Bangs, World

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• As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Believe, Science

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2000). “The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, Doubleday Books

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• You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, Cat, Vets

  "Gravitational Anarchy". WNYC Radio Podcast, November 29, 2010.

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• You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Hero, Matter, Way

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

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• As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Citizens, Scientist, Paradigm

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• It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Thinking, One Day

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• When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Jupiter, Earth

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2014

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• FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all about our TV programs (probably a bad thing), will hear all our FM music (probably a good thing), and know nothing of the politics of AM talk-show hosts (probably a safe thing).

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Civilization, Space

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• Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support faith, everyone goes to it and points to it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Support, Have Faith

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern astrophysics, and time became well understood going back billions of years. So enlightened religious people, as a necessity, had to shed the magical elements of the Bible. A little known fact is that Thomas Jefferson did just that. There's something called the Jefferson Bible. It's not widely publicized because it sort of conflicts with certain people's ideas of what the founding fathers were.

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  Religious, Father, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Views, Mind Blowing

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• Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Wave, Genuine

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• There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows... You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself, is there a wild counterpart to this? If there is, it's not as large, it's not as sweet, it's not as juicy, and it has way more seeds in it. We have systematically genetically modified all the foods, the vegetables and animals that we have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It's called artificial selection.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sweet, Animal, Vegetables

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells GMO Critics to 'Chill Out'". Interview with Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. July 30, 2014.

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• The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moving, Caves, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Nice, Journey, Lessons To Be Learned

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.47, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Luxury, Enlightenment, Needs

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

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• I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Might

  "I am Neil deGrasse Tyson - AMA". Reddit.com, November 13, 2011.

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