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There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If

There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Hair, Balls

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
Tombstone, Airplane, Asteroids
"We Can Survive Killer Asteroids — But It Won't Be Easy". www.wired.com. April 02, 2012.

I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moon, Sky, Fans
Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.110, Prometheus Books

When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Discovery, Knowing, Path

Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Technology, People, Wonder
Source: www.pbs.org

Some memories are best absorbed through your eyes in real time, even if you have no record of it later. Because then you can access that memory and how you felt in that moment. If you're looking at your cellphone screen, taking a video of something that is otherwise unforgettable, watching it later will not recover the emotion you would have had, had you witnessed it directly.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Memories, Real, Eye
Source: www.complex.com

I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all species of Earth life than any two species of Earth life are from each other.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Earth Life, Two, Different
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.306, W. W. Norton & Company

If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Car, Would Be, Neptune
"Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on killing Pluto: 'All I did was drive the getaway car'" by Thomas Houston, www.theverge.com. March 26, 2012.

Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ideas, Answers, Driven
Reddit AMA, November 13, 2011.

If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at all. What you're saying is you're taking the Bible's account as literally true in need of a scientific explanation rather than just people coming up with stuff to fulfill their religious missions.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious, Believe, Mean
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that continuously (yet unwittingly) tunes Earth's atmospheric composition and climate to promote the presence of life... But I'd bet there are some dead Martians and Venusians who advanced the same theory about their own planets a billion years ago.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Ideas, Years
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.210, W. W. Norton & Company

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
School, Age, Enlightenment
Twitter post from Apr 23, 2014

Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Depressing, Thinking, Perspective
"What is Your Relevance to the Cosmos?". bigthink.com.

Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, World, Nucleus

We need to look at NASA, not as a handout, but as an investment.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Needs, Looks, Investment

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Christmas, Light, Fog
Twitter post from Dec 25, 2014

What do you call those knobby things on doors that help you open them?

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Doors, Helping

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Teaching, Thinking, People
"Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview with David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became big, green, and ugly.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Character, Science, Want
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Philosophy, Thinking, People
Twitter post from Aug 7, 2011

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Book, Kids, Giving

Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the financial stability of a nation is what needs to established.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Technology, Engineering, Connections

With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Bad Ass, People, Bacteria

NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Eye, Lists, Nasa

If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Problem, Easy, Solve
Twitter post from Jun 27, 2012

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