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Neil Degrasse Tyson Quotes
The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus!
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Cook
Could
Degrees
Eat
Fans
Fun
Hilarious
Lead
Like
Next
Next Time
Nine
Pizza
Saying
Seconds
Tell
Thinking
Time
Universe
Venus
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.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Became
Different
Earth
Everywhere
Find
Ingredients
Intelligent
Know
Large
Life
No Reason
Old
Question
Reason
Regard
See
Think
Unique
Universe
Whether
Would
Would-Be
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Make
Obligation
Sense
Universe
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The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Before
Carry
Did
Electronics
Exist
Furniture
Gee
Grandparents
Had
Living
Living Room
Mean
Nobody
Our
Pocket
Program
Room
Saying
Space
Space Program
Time
Urge
Want
Which
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The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Eclipse
Solar
Spectacle
Total
Transit
Venus
Way
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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Best
Discoveries
Expect
Nature
Science
Those
Very
You
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There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Climbing
Energy
Essentially
Here
Looking
Lot
Next
Ourselves
Over
Resources
Source
Space
Things
Universe
Unlimited
You
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There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Advance
Biggest
Catalogue
Crosses
Earth
Goal
Going
Know
Little
Near
Objects
Orbit
Our
Put
Risk
Solar
Solar System
System
Them
Thousands
Try
Us
Whose
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There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Always
Ask
Challenge
Clueless
Curiosity
Curious
Done
Dumb
Educator
End
Enlightened
I Can
Land
Lives
No-One
People
Place
Questions
Remain
Someone
Take
Throughout
Up
Where
Who
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There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Because
Correct
Example
Gave
Go
Insight
Knows
Me
No-One
Prediction
Reading
Saying
Scripture
Someone
Test
World
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There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Education
Greater
Than
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There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Allow
Around
Begin
Close
Eclipse
Enables
End
Exactly
Exactly What
Going
Laws
Like
Nothing
Physics
Precision
Rise
Say
Science
Sun
Time
Understand
Us
Which
World
You
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There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Goes
Lot
Memorize
School
Sort
Things
Vocabulary
Words
You
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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.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Behavior
Earth
Effect
Environment
Greenhouse
Immersed
Learn
Life
Lot
Mars
More
Space
Sun
Venus
Want
Whether
Which
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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.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Honest
Makes
People
Psychology
Really
Seeing
Sky
Something
Special
Think
To Be Honest
Understand
Unique
Witnessing
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Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Also
Because
Big
Connected
Cosmic
Depressing
How
Know
Look
Me
Need
Outlook
Perspective
Really
See
Small
Think
Those
Universe
Up
Who
World
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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.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Any
Back
Because
Bring
Capacity
Cave
Country
Creative
Dream
Dreamt
Engineers
Future
Happen
Headed
Just
Make
Make It Happen
Midst
Might
People
Present
Real
Requires
Scientists
Then
Tomorrow
Up
Well
Where
Who
Within
Your
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Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Appreciated
Background
Came
Character
How
Interests
La
Look
Models
People
Respect
Restricting
Role
Role Models
Same
Should
Someone
Take
Trait
Want
Well
Who
Whose
You
Your
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Venus has a runaway greenhouse effect. I kind of want to know what happened there because we're twirling knobs here on Earth without knowing the consequences of it. Mars once had running water. It's bone dry today. Something bad happened there as well.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Bad
Because
Bone
Consequences
Dry
Earth
Effect
Greenhouse
Had
Happened
Here
Kind
Know
Knowing
Mars
Once
Runaway
Running
Something
Today
Venus
Want
Water
Well
Without
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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
Account
Accounting
Anything
Effective
Ever
Forces
Gravity
Known
Making
Most
Move
Objects
See
Something
Stuff
Touched
Universe
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