Neil deGrasse Tyson quote: "Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking."

The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has...
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You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that...
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To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists...
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I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they sho...
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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those...
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If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astro...
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We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the...
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
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Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they'r...
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While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbuste...
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My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they coul...
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'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.
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The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic m...
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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the univ...
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday ...
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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who...
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What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would s...
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There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which phys...
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Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about...
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The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I a...
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Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliab...
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Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
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It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference a...
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We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects ...
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Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
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I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework s...
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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors,...
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Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Explorati...
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I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some sepa...
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If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by on...
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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 do...
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we c...
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Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what ...
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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once wa...
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Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe un...
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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...
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For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just...
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Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
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If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some dis...
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Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsib...
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Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or mak...
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All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked w...
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The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are ...
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Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwitting...
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I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you a...
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout the...
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Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in ...
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that'...
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Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they ...
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Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move flue...
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All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attach...
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I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-base...
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I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pul...
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Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there...
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There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
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Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I neve...
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Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch ...
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I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how scienc...
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You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The ad...
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There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened wh...
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When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That&...
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I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of th...
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The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them...
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Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the ...
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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it ...
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One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it beco...
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One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else c...
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There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have ...
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My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has...
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Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, ar...
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I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn...
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I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. ...
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I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names o...
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The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they...
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Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not he...
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I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid,...
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In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're su...
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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 ...
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If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that element...
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When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn&...
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I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People ...
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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissi...
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If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reactio...
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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of...
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Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
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I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody yo...
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The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do o...
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What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so d...
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Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, i...
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If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scie...
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In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't comp...
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Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the poli...
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I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they...
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We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was ...
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like ...
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Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat th...
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As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strong...
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Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Eart...
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Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you...
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I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That'...
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The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.
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Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
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If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equ...
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If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into ...
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Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. ...
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We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the momen...
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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don...
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The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discover...
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The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.
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Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different jou...
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When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. I...
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If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life fo...
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As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they migh...
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I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the infor...
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You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, i...
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When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or sig...
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Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how ...
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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I...
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Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everyth...
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Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-cha...
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One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it do...
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I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains...
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Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play i...
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Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know...
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I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort...
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As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist....
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Every day, I wake up and I say, 'Why... how... did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?&...
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If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private en...
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Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
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Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Holly...
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When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new i...
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All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be ...
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For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
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Science is not just about seeing, it’s about measuring, preferably with something that’s not you...
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For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass...
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There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about w...
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You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illi...
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It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we loo...
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The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of ...
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The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.
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I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to...
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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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There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all thes...
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You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't ...
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Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is?...
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We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast ...
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Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space...
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So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific dis...
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It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do bes...
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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of...
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Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special ...
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The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents ...
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In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is...
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We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to s...
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There is a fundamental reason why we look at the sky with wonder and longing—for the same reason t...
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You could also ask who’s in charge. Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most i...
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But you can’t be a scientist if you’re uncomfortable with ignorance, because scientists live at ...
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Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay d...
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These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
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The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a gal...
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There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. W...
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Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world...
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Who gets to celebrate this cosmic view of life? Not the migrant farmworker. Not the sweatshop worker...
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I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long ...
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Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects...
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Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier i...
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In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got ca...
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The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, ar...
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The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent for...
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When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No ques...
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a...
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I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If i...
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While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic trut...
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The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded th...
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To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for you...
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Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter,...
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It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and ...
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It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or w...
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Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue...
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Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, ...
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The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let...
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We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
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With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot'...
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All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attach...
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If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it wo...
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Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their...
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Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off sw...
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We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We'...
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Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.
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I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone e...
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There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seei...
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I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don&...
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I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.

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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.

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