Category: astrophysicist
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I don’t want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We’d be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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. That’s what scientists do every day.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I can’t gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn’t believe in God. I just don’t – I don’t have the energy for that, and so I… Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I’d rather not be any category at all.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Fortunately, there’s another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward – as an investment in our economy.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I’m fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
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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Scientists in different disciplines don’t speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It’s like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, ‘Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.’ Which is a non-thought.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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NASA has spin-offs, and it’s a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.
Neil deGrasse Tyson