Neil deGrasse Tyson

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"I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity peaks. Ironically, these are the times that I would flunk the reality check normally reserved for mental patients and dazed boxers: What is your name? What day is it? Who is the president of the United States?... I do not know, and I do not care. I am at peace with my equations as I connect to the cosmic engines that drive our universe."

Reality Names President

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"If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others."

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"Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth."

Science Diversity The End Of The Day

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"I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not the sky as it is but the sky as he felt it. And the more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world."

Artist Sky Want

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"People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment."

Science People Empowerment

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"What's up with chicks and science?"

Chicks

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"The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human."

Humans Explorers Decades

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"In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you."

Flow Five Senses Modern

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"When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist."

Skin Color Role Models Skins

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"'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines."

Doe Gone Headlines

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"Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us.... Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?"

Smart Science Hair

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"Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it."

Humble Science Past

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"Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small."

Wisdom Nature Science

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"Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks."

Space Risk Enterprise

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"Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which might one day render Earth as dry and lifeless as Mars. (From the cover of Old Poison by Joan Francis)"

Running Oasis Long Ago

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"And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants."

Science Yellow White

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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."

New York People Priorities

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"Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions."

Player Champion Chess

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"All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA."

Dream Math Technology

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"I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures."

Two Funny Graduation Culture

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