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Neil deGrasse Tyson

American Scientist

Born: Oct 5, 1958

People Science Space Think Universe You

Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Sylvia Earle W. Edwards Deming

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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.' Neil deGrasse Tyson

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One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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.' Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone. Neil deGrasse Tyson

I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves. Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth. Neil deGrasse Tyson

'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge of the universe, but we're going to land right on you: in your heart, in your soul, in your mind. My goal is to have people know that they are participants in this great unfolding cosmic story. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station. Neil deGrasse Tyson

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