Tag: Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it’s not simply, ‘Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?’ That’s an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that’s presented in front of you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It may be that our cosmic curiosity… is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they’re made of, possibly tag their ears so they’re always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we’ll know well in advance to do something about it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I’m merely revealing that fact. I don’t think I’m anything special for this to happen.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It’s the great tragedy – people employed in ways that don’t fully tap everything they do best in life.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
Neil deGrasse Tyson