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" 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
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" The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.' "
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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. "
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" I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. "
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" What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them. "
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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. "
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" We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed. "
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" You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues. "
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" Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into? "
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Fall
Black
" It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder. "
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Curiosity
Force
" If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet. "
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You
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" NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery. "
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NASA
List
" The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. "
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Obligation
Sense
" So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot. "
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Discovery
Moment
God
" 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. "
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Me
Think
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" Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival. "
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" Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story. "
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Movies
Well
" 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. "
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Unique
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" If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist. "
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" Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow. "
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" Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing. "
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" The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. "
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" The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time. "
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" I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course. "
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" There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. "
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Education
Than
" 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. "
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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. "
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Science
Growth
" Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening. "
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Ideas
Focus
" As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space. "
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" If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist. "
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