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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Both
Facts
Important
More
Part
Perhaps
Than
Those
Universe
Us
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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!'
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Because
Creating
Define
Definition
Doing
Intelligent
Odd
Our
Ourselves
Own
Saying
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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.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Angeles
Because
Build
Building
Coast
Connect
Doing
Go
Highways
Invent
Los
Los Angeles
Multiple
New
New York
People
Persons
Places
Priority
Roads
System
Things
Thought
Ways
West
West Coast
York
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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.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
American
Because
DNA
Explore
Felt
Go
Moon
Our
Threat
To The Moon
War
Were
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We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Before
Child
Compelled
Doing
Environment
Every
Explore
Happens
Later
More
Our
Poetry
Scientist
Start
Than
Utter
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We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Being
Bred
Broke
Diminishes
Experienced
Generations
Grand
Great
Instead
Knowing
Moment
Multiple
News
News Story
People
Society
Something
Story
Where
Who
You
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We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Almost
Almost All
Cases
Hard
Hard Work
Kind
Live
Rewarded
Society
Where
Work
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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.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Earth
Live
Make
Might
Most
Think
Today
Tomorrow
You
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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.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Been
Brain
Come
Curriculum
Facts
Flows
How
Interested
Lesson
Literacy
Many
More
Out
Plan
Proposed
Rather
Recite
Science
Scientific
Than
Think
Thinking
Wired
You
Your
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What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Back
Book
Get
Learned
Parrot
Promoting
Science
Society
You
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What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
After
Agnostic
Came
Closest
Find
God
People
Really
Religion
Say
Spirituality
Stance
Word
Would
Would-Be
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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 deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Above
Balls
Curve
Deeply
Else
Energy
Got
Hurdles
Love
Need
Overcome
Place
Put
Subject
Them
Thrown
Whatever
You
Your
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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.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Abandoned
Another
Ball
Becomes
Beyond
Budget
Dream
Dropped
Easily
Finish
Fundamentally
He
His
Job
Must
Office
Plan
President
Problem
Promises
Readily
Something
Too
Years
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When an industry matures, it means it's not advancing, and of course the jobs go overseas. That's the obligation of the multi-national corporation: to put the factory where it can make the widget as cheap as possible. Don't get angry when a corporation does that; we've all bought into this concept. We live in a capitalistic society.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Advancing
Angry
Bought
Cheap
Concept
Corporation
Course
Does
Factory
Get
Go
Industry
Jobs
Live
Make
Means
Obligation
Overseas
Possible
Put
Society
Where
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When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Agree
Democracy
Efficient
Everyone
More
Nothing
Plan
Single
Solution
Than
World
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When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
American
American People
Audacious
Back
Bring
Eight
Forth
Front
Go
Goal
He
Him
Kennedy
Land
Launch
Man
Moon
People
Put
Said
To The Moon
Vehicle
Years
You
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When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Animal
Animals
Between
Biggest
Biggest Challenges
Challenges
Come
Commands
Deeper
Distinguish
Doing
How
Intelligence
Just
Kind
Know
Obeying
Real
Remarkable
Researchers
See
Seeing
Signs
Simply
Some
Talented
Tests
Things
Tricks
Two
Understanding
Up
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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
Because
Becomes
Boost
Create
Culture
Economy
Else
Figured
Go
How
Industries
Innovate
Jobs
New
No-One
Out
Overseas
Part
Then
You
Your
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When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline. It makes a good campaign slogan. You get to claim that you've engaged in these activities within an election cycle. But certain investments take longer than an election cycle.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Activities
Campaign
Certain
Claim
Cycle
Directly
Election
Engaged
Get
Good
Headline
Investments
Longer
Makes
Money
Problem
Put
Slogan
Take
Than
Within
You
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Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Any
Becomes
Biology
Closer
Draw
Earth
Else
Even
Extraordinary
Field
Find
Kind
Know
Life
Look
Remarkable
See
Somewhere
Somewhere Else
Water
Where
Which
Would
Would-Be
You
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