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" I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
People
Long
Looking
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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. "
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Desert
Space
Government
" 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. "
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Long
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" Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this. "
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Technology
Tomorrow
Health
" The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Theory
Evolution
Fact
" There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Risk
Try
Space
" Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?' "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Think
Way
Find
" Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Think
Perspective
People
" Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Television
Even
Less
" You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Matter
Political
Power
" As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything! "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Everything
Where
World
" What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science
Get
Book
" There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
People
Unique
Think
" I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mystery
Problem
Know
" The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Only
Argument
Stronger
" You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Earth
Battle
You
" All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
NASA
Technology
You
" Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
World
Children
Curious
" 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
Think
Science
People
" I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Week
Age
Born
" Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
You
Passion
Strong Men
" If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ego
Small
Space
" There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
People
End
Curiosity
" Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Character
Look
People
" The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Exploration
History
People
" Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomorrow's economies. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tomorrow
Innovation
People
" The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.' "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moon
Adjective
Using
" 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
You
Place
Time
" The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Solar
Solar System
Some
" When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Go
Create
Culture
" 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
Spiritual
Stars
Think