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NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Accurate
Affordable
Eye
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Impressive
Including
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NASA
Surgery
Very
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No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on another planet. Show me a dead alien. Better yet, show me a live one!
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alien
Another
Better
Creative
Dead
Deny
Enough
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Imagine
Life
Like
Live
Me
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Possibility
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Would
Would-Be
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Clueless
Curious
Dumb
Lives
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People
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No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Culture
Cycles
Die
Economic
Fundamental
No-One
Politics
Poor
Transcend
Truths
Two
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Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Biography
Books
Culture
Details
Discovery
Enlightening
Enough
Find
Focus
Genre
How
Ideas
Life
Made
New
New Ideas
Path
Person
Radically
Responds
Tend
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Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Carry
Cosmic
Could
Enough
Enough People
I Think
Life-Changing
People
Perspective
Them
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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Actor
Communities
Concept
Culture
Embrace
Engineers
Even
Fight
Innovation
Journalists
Literate
Meaning
Meaning Of
Once
Poets
Promote
Science
Scientifically
Scientists
Technology
Those
Vote
Ways
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One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Education
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Less
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One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Been
Belief
Born
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Different
Else
Experiment
Features
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Greatest
Matter
Might
Parents
Perform
Place
Result
Same
Science
Someone
Systems
Time
Were
Where
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One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Absence
Better
Cheaper
Cheaply
Company
Else
Enterprise
Everyone
Everyone Else
Fact
Factory
Innovation
Jobs
Lose
Make
Market
More
Multinational
Obligation
Place
Symptoms
Take
Than
Up
Where
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One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Artistic
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Charmed
Fascinates
Me
Most
One Of The Things
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Part
People
Things
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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Billion
Center
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Every Step
Everything
Feel
Galaxies
Galaxy
Like
Milky Way
Mind
Modern
Opened
Other
Our
Person
Shrinking
Step
Universe
Up
Wants
Way
Who
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Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Aspect
Bang
Big
Big Bang
Biggest
DNA
Do You Know
Front
How
Information
Know
Literacy
Part
Presented
Science
Simply
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Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Gets
Give
Hardest
Make
Men
Might
Otherwise
Passion
Strong
Strong Men
Through
Times
Up
Weak
You
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People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Anything
Credit
Fact
Happen
In Fact
Inherently
Interesting
Making
Me
Merely
People
Revealing
Special
Think
Universe
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People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Book
Conceive
Generally
How
Long
People
Publish
Recognize
Takes
Write
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People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Because
People
Scientists
Spite
System
Today
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Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alien
Because
Been
Decided
Earth
Intelligent
Intelligent Life
Life
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Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Billion
Countless
Different
Dots
Earth
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Galaxies
Got
Hundred
Made
Maybe
Milky Way
Never
Night
Other
Philosophically
Planets
Really
Seven
Sky
Special
Sun
Things
Those
Universe
Universes
Way
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Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Accurate
Only
Physics
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Prophecy
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