Tag: Neil deGrasse Tyson
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People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If you’re going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it’ll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it’s expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can’t get investors.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company’s obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I’m often asked – and occasionally in an accusatory way – ‘Are you atheist?’ And it’s like, ‘You know, the only ‘ist’ I am is a scientist, all right?’ I don’t associate with movements. I’m not an ‘ism.’ I just – I think for myself.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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People generally don’t recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If we find life out there, and it’s not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that’s vastly more intelligent than we are. If that’s the case, we are putty in their hands.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we’re tackling these mysteries one by one. If you’re going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don’t know it at the time.
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