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" The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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" 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. "
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" 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
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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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" Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion. "
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Data
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" You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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" 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. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Universe
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" 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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" 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? "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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" 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
" I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go. "
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Physics
Star
Comment
" The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture. "
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" Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Humanity
Thinking
Think
" Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Space
Science
Problem
" 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
" 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. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Heat
You
Grow
" The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Unique
Know
Life
" I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
People
Space
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
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" 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
" 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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I Can
Space
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" I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Want
End
Galaxy
" I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all. "
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Never
Real
Because
" Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer. "
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Look
Mind
Off
" 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. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Myself
Treat
Thought
" 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
" The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation. "
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People
School
Tomorrow
" Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe. "
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Understanding
Live
Mind
" 'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge of the universe, but we're going to land right on you: in your heart, in your soul, in your mind. My goal is to have people know that they are participants in this great unfolding cosmic story. "
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Great
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Story
" 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
Mystery
Conversation
God
" People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it. "
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