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I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Carved
Combinations
Everyone
Expressing
Expression
Greatest
Had
I Think
Luxury
Our
Overnight
People
Society
Talents
Think
Transformed
Unique
World
Would
Would-Be
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I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Been
Else
Ever
Greatest
I Think
Never
People
Society
Someone
Themselves
Think
Versions
Were
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I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Biology
Chemistry
Corner
Life
Physics
Public
Pulled
Separate
Show
Some
Subject
Taught
Try
You
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I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Come
Cosmic
Far
Honest
How
How Far
Live
Ours
People
Perspective
Realize
See
Simultaneously
Universe
Uplifting
Want
Wonderful
World
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I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Any
Closer
Complete
Complete Mystery
Dark
Discovered
Energy
Know
Matter
Mystery
No-One
Problem
Remain
Solving
Than
Things
Two
Want
Were
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I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People didn't treat me as someone with science ambitions. They treated me as someone they thought was going to mug them, or who was a shoplifter.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ambition
Aspiring
Color
Defined
Going
How
Me
Mug
Myself
People
Science
Skin
Skin Color
Someone
Them
Thought
Treat
Treated
Who
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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, joys, and frustrations.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Age
Born
Feel
Founded
Frustrations
I Was Born
Joys
NASA
Pains
Same
Same Age
Some
Week
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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 city kid because when you look up you just see buildings - and really, your first thought is to look in people's windows. So to look out of the space - out of living space - and look up to the sky, binoculars go far, literally and figuratively.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Because
Binoculars
Buildings
City
Far
First
Go
Hard
Just
Kid
Literally
Living
Look
Looking
Out
Pair
People
Picking
Really
See
Sky
Space
Thought
Transformed
Up
Windows
You
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I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Baffled
Driving
Everybody
Four
Heard
Know
Love
Night
Percent
See
Sky
Telescope
Think
Through
Time
Universe
You
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I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page, others did, and I'm flattered that people cared enough about my life to assemble it - and it said, 'Neil deGrasse is an atheist.'
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Assemble
Atheist
Atheists
Cared
Claimed
Constantly
Create
Did
Enough
Fact
Find
Flattered
In Fact
Intriguing
Life
My Life
Neil
Others
Page
People
Said
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I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Deaths
Environments
Fascinated
Havoc
Stars
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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 a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Awesome
Awesome Responsibility
Certainly
Famous
High
High-Profile
Lightly
Profile
Responsibility
Scientist
Shoulder
Very
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I'm often asked - and occasionally in an accusatory way - 'Are you atheist?' And it's like, 'You know, the only 'ist' I am is a scientist, all right?' I don't associate with movements. I'm not an 'ism.' I just - I think for myself.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Am
Asked
Associate
Atheist
I Am
I Think
Just
Know
Like
Movements
Myself
Occasionally
Often
Only
Right
Scientist
Think
Way
You
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I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Advice
Asked
Bit
Born
Curious
Get
Give
Help
Interested
Kids
Often
Only
Out
Parents
Period
Science
Them
Way
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I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Anything
Because
Believe
Crusade
Directors
Extraordinary
Get
Invent
More
Movie
Often
Right
Science
Than
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I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alien
Certain
Created
Desert
Divine
Entire
Entity
Government
How
Intrigued
Invisible
Just
Largely
Lead
Lives
Location
Mind
Part
People
Secret
Space
Universe
Us
Who
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I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Been
Even
Know
Life
Minimalist
Office
Whole
You
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I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Adult
Annoying
Away
Calling
Gonna
Grow
Grow Up
Known
Long
Me
Oh
Quickly
Real
Said
Say
Then
Those
Universe
Up
Walk
Were
Would
You
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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Academic
Aerospace
Armies
Being
Command
Community
Heart
Labor
Lead
Means
Over
Person
Place
Power
Presidential
Quality
Quality Time
Service
Spent
Thing
Thought
Time
Two
Unions
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If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Befuddled
Looking
Research
Scientist
Then
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