Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes - Page 7

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• Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.

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  Moving, Data, Doe

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• If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

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  Humility, Cosmos, Purpose

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• Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.

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  Kids, Stuff, Exploration

  "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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• Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.

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  Jesus, Feet, Lazarus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.

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  Mind Blowing, Creepy, Haunting

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2011

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• There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

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  Understanding, Chemistry, Physics

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2012

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• In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

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  Animal, Keys, Survival

  "How Smart Are Animals?". "NOVA scienceNOW", www.pbs.org. February 9, 2011.

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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 afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

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  Teacher, Art, Bad Ass

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

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• The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

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  People, Versions

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• If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

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  Empowering, Understanding, Different

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• The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.

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  Thinking, Years, Would Be

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• I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

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  Fear, Atheism, Classroom

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2013

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• Americans live in a free country, which allows you to believe what you want. Because you think that something is true does not require that it is objectively true. The value of science concerning itself with objective truths is that we can make decisions and statements that affect everyone, which is why legislation really should be based on objective truths, not what is going on in your head.

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  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

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  Tools, Way, Happens

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• In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day

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  Nice, Years, Mind Blowing

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• I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"

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  Believe, Global Warming, Climate Change

  Twitter post from Jul 31, 2012

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• In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up.

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  Universe

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

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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.

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  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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• My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe.

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  Intelligent, Civilization, Listening

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• Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.

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  War, Moon, Dna

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• If you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else.

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  Matter, More Time, Ifs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

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  Ideas, Discovery, Gaps

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that if they just have everybody learning what is, they're not going to be in a position to invent a tomorrow because their brain isn't even wired to go in that direction.

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  Technology, Innovation, Brain

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense.

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  Science, Common Sense, Brain

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.135, W. W. Norton & Company

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