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" The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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" I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight. "

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" We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it. "

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" When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred. "

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" Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang. "

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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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" For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations. "

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" It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life. "

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" We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!' "

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" Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt. "

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" Everyone should have their mind blown once a day. "

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" 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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" Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision. "

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" 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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" NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery. "

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" The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not. "

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" We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads. "

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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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" Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong. "

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" I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively. "

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" I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another. "

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" It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents. "

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" I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office. "

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" I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly. "

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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. "

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" The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. "

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" 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. "

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" Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families. "

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" For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested. "

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