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Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Another
Business
Call
Come
Crosses
Doing
Got
No Business
Now
Orbit
Planet
Pluto
Something
Want
You
Yourself
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Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alive
Animal
Every
Much
Natural
Plant
Pretty
Result
Today
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Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Because
Enterprise
Expensive
Frontier
Lead
Never
Possible
Private
Private Enterprise
Risks
Space
Unknown
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Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Activity
Because
Cannot
Capital
Civilization
Combine
Create
Dangerous
Enterprise
Expensive
Factors
Happened
History
Large
Led
Market
Never
Private
Private Enterprise
Projects
Risks
The History Of
Unknown
You
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Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Creativity
Drive
Emotions
Never
People
Rational
Thoughts
Way
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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Activity
Because
Cherished
Enterprise
Free
Gives
How
Human
Human Mind
Live
Mind
Our
Place
Science
Should
Understanding
Universe
Us
Who
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Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Against
Basically
Charlatans
Science
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Flow
Literacy
Problems
Science
Solutions
Through
Tomorrow
Which
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Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Come
Different
Disciplines
Journals
Language
Like
Nations
Need
No-One
Publish
Same
Scientists
Some
Speak
Speaks
Together
United
United Nations
You
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So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Across
Any
Any Given Moment
Assert
Boundary
Cosmic
Discovery
Frontier
General
Given
God
History
Lies
Lot
Moment
Particularly
People
Religious
Religious People
Scientific
Shows
Tends
The History Of
Unknown
Up
Urge
Where
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Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag their ears so they're always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we'll know well in advance to do something about it.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Advance
Always
Be Nice
Broadcasting
Case
Ears
Find
Go
Head
Know
Location
Made
Near
Nice
Out
Possibly
Sights
Some
Something
Sort
Straight
Tag
Them
Us
Well
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Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Being
Good
Illiterate
Learned
Math
Never
People
Read
Said
Say
Somehow
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Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Delusion
Demographic
Ever
Most
Seen
Space
Susceptible
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Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Exploration
Force
Itself
Nature
Other
Rival
Society
Space
Space Exploration
Unto
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Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Gave
General
Investments
NASA
Space
Specifically
Us
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Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Becomes
Being
Frontier
Longer
Only
Ordinary
Space
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Stephen Hawking's been watching too many Hollywood movies. I think the only kind aliens in Hollywood are the ones created by Steven Spielberg - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'E.T.,' for example. All other aliens are trying to suck our brains out.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Alien
Been
Brains
Close
Created
Encounters
Example
For Example
Hollywood
Hollywood Movies
I Think
Kind
Many
Movies
Only
Other
Our
Out
Spielberg
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Suck
Think
Third
Too
Trying
Watching
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The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Caricature
Challenges
Dead
Fact
Famous
Highest
Hold
In Fact
Just
Lifetimes
Others
Our
Own
Prove
Rewards
Science
Scientists
Shun
Them
Theories
Those
Tight
True
Until
Wait
Way
Who
Wrong
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The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Center
Feel
Go
Grave
How
I Feel
Line
Literacy
Making
Many
People
Point
Science
Strongly
Tell
Think
Which
Will
You
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The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
About
Airplane
Asteroid
Chances
Crash
Read
Same
Tombstone
Will
Your
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