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The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars, Science, Blood

But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Years, Twenties, World

Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars, Moving, Moon

Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Character, People, Role Models
Interview with Peter Tyson, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2004.

All information is good, even when it is bad.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Information

There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Country, Thinking, Engineering
Source: bookriot.com

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
Parent, Different, Might

Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Careers, Might, Chosen
Source: www.avclub.com

Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite athletic at the time, probably because I was bigger than other kids, and if you're bigger than other kids and you're 11 you win everything.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Baseball, Kids, Winning
"Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in the educational pipeline. It's vital to our prosperity and security.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Educational, Views, Luxury
Source: www.foxnews.com

Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
People, The End Of The Day, Population
Source: blog.sfgate.com

I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Complaining, Culture, Literacy
Source: www.esquire.com

Americans live in a free country, which allows you to believe what you want. Because you think that something is true does not require that it is objectively true. The value of science concerning itself with objective truths is that we can make decisions and statements that affect everyone, which is why legislation really should be based on objective truths, not what is going on in your head.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Country, Believe, Thinking
Source: www.esquire.com

Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious, Holiday, Merry Christmas
Twitter post from Dec 25, 2014

Three and a half million years ago our ancestors - yours and mine - left these traces [indicates footprints]. We stood up and parted ways from them. Once we were standing on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now, we were free to look up and wonder.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Eye, Two, Feet

I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based on the rigorous winnowing that science and scientists are always doing in order to find out what's really happening. I think it's really good to encourage generally our ability to tell stories and that's a great skill that we come by naturally, so I'm excited about that.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thinking, Order, Skills
Source: www.denofgeek.com

The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Teacher, Teaching, Inspiration
"Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Interview with Marina Leight, Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Data, Five Senses

The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real value comes about when it's time to distinguish reality from everything else. And to be scientifically literate is to be trained in what it is, to recognize your own frailty as a data-taking device.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Real, Science, Ipods

New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder, we will forever uncover the secrets of the universe - one by one.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Past, Sight, Discovery

This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Strong, Wall, War
Source: blog.sfgate.com

Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the nature of the universe from the statements and philosophies contained in religious writings.... Had any of these efforts worked, science and religion today might be one and the same. But they are not.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious, Philosophy, Writing
Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.183, Prometheus Books

Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain you. And if you cherry-pick this fact, you are left thinking that earth is some haven for life, but 96, 97 percent of all species that ever lived on earth are now extinct from the actions of the earth itself and an occasional asteroid to stir the pot.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thinking, Earth, Action
Source: www.esquire.com

The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Foundation, Radio, Program
Source: www.avclub.com

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