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If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Conversation
End
God
Going
Just
Mean
More
Mysteries
Mystery
Religious
Science
Stay
Tackling
Than
Tread
Universe
Where
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If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Been
Could
Descended
Earth
Every
Form
Formed
Life
Making
Mars
Martian
Then
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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 doing my job as a scientist.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Black
Black History
Doing
History
Job
Me
Month
Must
Only
Only Time
Scientist
Then
Think
Time
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If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Almost
Apollo
Became
Case
Certainly
Goal
International
International Space Station
Mars
NASA
Nations
Other
Program
Progress
Project
Reaching
Reaction
Space
Space Station
States
Station
United
United States
Will
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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 equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Case
Deem
Equally
Find
Hands
Intelligent
Life
Likely
May
More
Out
Than
Us
Vastly
Will
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If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Bad
Bad Day
Carry
Chains
Communication
Day
Disrupt
Earth
Energy
Enough
Food
Get
Large
Our
Really
Size
System
Those
Transportation
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If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Black
Black History
Educator
Failing
History
Me
Month
Must
Only
Think
You
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If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Behavior
Earth
Evaporate
Grow
Heat
Ice
Kind
Now
Planet
Pluto
Right
Sun
Tail
Where
Would
You
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If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Awe
Body
Call
Elements
Example
Exploded
Fail
Feelings
For Example
Knowing
Majesty
Reaction
Something
Speaking
Spiritual
Stars
Think
Trace
Where
Words
You
Your
Your Body
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If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ambition
Exploration
Got
Humans
Nation
Send
Space
Space Exploration
Want
You
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If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Absence
Answer
Data
Even
Going
Good
Scientist
You
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If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Because
Cannot
Conditions
Dangerous
Enterprise
Establish
Evaluation
Expensive
Frontier
Get
Going
Government
Investors
Lead
Never
Private
Private Enterprise
Risks
Space
Those
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If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Am
Around
Big
Body
Disappointments
Discovered
Earth
Ego
Frail
Human
Human Body
I Am
Important
Limited
Look
Out
Small
Some
Space
Special
Starts
Time
Universe
Vessel
You
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In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to understanding where where, where they come from, and where they are going.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Across
Attempt
Civilizations
Come
Cultures
Earth
Going
Invested
Kind
Know
Some
Studied
Time
Understanding
Where
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In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Any
Bigger
City
Illusion
Lots
Moon
Seems
Skyline
Skyscrapers
Than
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In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Conduct
Natural
Natural World
Nature
Science
True
Ultimate
World
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In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
After
Art
Beethoven
Before
Compose
Composed
Else
Gogh
Going
He
Night
Ninth
No-One
Paint
Science
Somebody
Starry
Symphony
Van
Van Gogh
Whereas
Will
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In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Animal
Background
Best
Disappear
Enemies
Fade
Keys
Kingdom
Strategies
Surrounded
Survival
You
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Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Allocate
Better
Budget
Care
Economy
Engines
Federal
Fund
Health
How
Innovations
Nation
Needs
Recognize
Rethink
Science
Science And Technology
Taxes
Technology
Then
Tomorrow
Wealth
You
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It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Cosmic
Curiosity
Force
Illuminate
Look
May
Our
Up
Wonder
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