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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.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  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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• Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.

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  Green Plants, Light, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2012

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• 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.

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  Character, Bangs, World

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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.

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  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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• Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Vaccines, Intellectual

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• I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

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  Thinking, People, Want

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• I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

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  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow.

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  Dream, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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).

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  Light, Civilization, Space

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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.

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  Religious, Believe, Science

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

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• If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?

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  Moon, Jupiter, Ifs

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• After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life.

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  Jobs, Educational, Integrity

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

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• All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.

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  Country, Attachment, America

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• The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'

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  Country, Fun, Powerful

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

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• Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven.

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  Science, Two, People

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• I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Alien Life, Aliens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.

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  Media, Cost, News

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• No one is dumb who is curious.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dumb, Curious

  Interview with Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com.

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• You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Age, Needs, Objective Truth

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2013

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