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" Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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" One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique. "

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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. "

" If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. "

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" If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. "

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" I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine. "

" Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find. "

" 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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" We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us. "

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" We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat. "

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" All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet. "

" 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. "