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Neil Degrasse Tyson Quotes
I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Always
Because
Believe
Different
Educator
Empowering
Ever
Get
Information
Like
Me
Outlook
Ownership
People
Reference
Take
Them
Themselves
Those
Thoughts
Try
You
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I can't gather around and talk about how much everybody in the room doesn't believe in God. I just don't - I don't have the energy for that, and so I... Agnostic separates me from the conduct of atheists whether or not there is strong overlap between the two categories, and at the end of the day I'd rather not be any category at all.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Agnostic
Any
Around
Atheists
Believe
Between
Categories
Category
Conduct
Day
End
End Of The Day
Energy
Everybody
Gather
God
How
How Much
Just
Me
Much
Overlap
Rather
Room
Separates
Strong
Talk
Two
Whether
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I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Because
Course
Enthusiasm
Had
How
How Many People
Inspiration
Many
Off
Out
People
People Say
Say
Science
Sucked
Teacher
Tell
Turned
Were
You
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I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Assert
Claim
Clueless
Did
How
Just
Less
Prone
Science
Scientists
Simply
Somehow
Think
Those
Understand
Who
Works
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I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Anymore
Astronauts
Believe
Cares
Claim
Complaints
Culture
Except
Excited
Gets
Heard
Industry
Knows
Minute
Names
Nobody
Nobody Cares
Our
Part
People
Space
You
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I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Adult
Around
Born
Care
Child
City
Country
Create
Curious
Disorder
Doing
don't Care
Environment
Flowers
Inside
Leaves
Lives
Looking
Off
Petals
Rocks
Things
Town
Trees
You
Your
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I don't comment on the physics errors of 'Star Wars,' all right. I just - you let that one go.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Comment
Errors
Go
Just
Physics
Right
Star
Star Wars
Wars
You
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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.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Another
Anybody
Awesome
Because
Best
Boy
Class
Ever
Exams
Gave
Good
He
He Or She
Homework
I Love
Influences
Know
Love
People
Profession
Really
Said
Set
She
Talk
Teacher
Those
Took
Want
Were
Who
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I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Because
Critical
Critical Thinking
People
Say
Says
Something
Thinking
True
Tyson
Want
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I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alien
Asteroid
Case
Cosmos
Deflect
Embarrassment
End
Extinct
Galaxy
Going
Had
Power
Then
Up
Want
Were
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I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Doing
Enormous
Get
Knowing
Satisfaction
Society
Something
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I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world - the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Contribution
Doing
Else
Find
Happen
Life
Make
Only
Personal
Philosophy
Portfolio
Priorities
Represent
Should
Somebody
Something
Talents
Things
Those
Unique
Want
World
Would
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Better
History
Human
Human History
Ignorance
Know
Knowledge
No Time
Than
Time
Where
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I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
All-Around
Always
Around
Because
Becoming
Been
Believe
Else
Everybody
Geeky
Like
Mainstream
Minimum
Never
No-One
People
Science
Should
Something
Sort
Thinks
Us
Whether
Will
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I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Enough
Figure
Intelligent
Know
Lose
Night
Out
Sleep
Universe
Whether
Wondering
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I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Attempt
Because
Got
Made
Maybe
Never
Physics
Portray
Real
Star
Star Wars
Wars
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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 pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?'
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alien
Came
Embarrassed
Fight
Fossil
Fossil Fuels
Fuels
Ground
Like
Our
Out
Pull
Run
Said
Tell
Them
Transportation
Visit
Wars
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I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Absence
Advance
Being
Frontier
Going
I See
Innovation
Jobs
Major
National
Overseas
Priority
See
Symptom
Talk
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I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Been
Long
Long Time
Looking
Oldest
People
Profession
Second
Study
Time
Universe
Up
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Animal
Animals
Because
Branch
Call
Considered
Definition
Fine
Humans
I Think
Important
Intelligence
Intelligent
Just
Life
Many
Narrow
Other
Our
Survival
Surviving
Think
Tree
Tree Of Life
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