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" Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Basically
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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. "
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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. "
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" You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output. "
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" With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950s. We are so past that. "
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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. "
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" The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. "
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" Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing. "
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" The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle. "
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Way
Venus
" To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed. "
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Back
People
Creative
" 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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Matter
Political
Power
" There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun. "
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Behavior
Life
Environment
" 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
" I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life
Chemistry
Biology
" My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
School
Parents
Me
" 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. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Existence
You
Planet
" I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Environments
Stars
Deaths
" Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one. "
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Television
Even
Less
" The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself. "
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Dream
Future
Science
" I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you. "
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Child
Looking
City
" 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. "
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Life
Been
Making
" 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. "
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Better
Place
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" I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter. "
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Myself
Treat
Thought
" There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. "
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Greater
Education
Than
" We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched. "
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Universe
Accounting
Gravity
" 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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" 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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Focus
" 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.' "
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Moon
Adjective
Using
" Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached. "
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Being
Frontier