Category: astrophysicist
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Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I’m perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The idea that science is just some luxury that you’ll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.
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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Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I don’t comment on the physics errors of ‘Star Wars,’ all right. I just – you let that one go.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.
Neil deGrasse Tyson