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Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was

Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars. … The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

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Stars, Heart, Oxygen

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Teacher, Inspiration, People

It would be amazing if something completely spiritual sounding happened. Oh, my gosh! We'd be all over it. Because it's something new about the physical universe.

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Spiritual, Would Be, Something New
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.

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Doctors, Beauty And Love, Long
Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.33, Prometheus Books

They all knew the mothership was coming, they all knew it was a flying saucer, they all knew it came from another planet through the vacuum of space. And so what do they do, to the left of that monument? They set up runway lights. And I'm thinking, if you could travel through the vacuum of space, you don't need runway lights. Runway lights are if you're using air for lift. Aliens would not need air for lift.

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Thinking, Light, Air

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Space, Demographics, Delusion

The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Smart, Artist, Doctors

I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Airplane, Fearless, Mind

When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Impact, Volcanoes, Rays
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Flow, Five Senses, Modern
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Believe, Law, Opinion

We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

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Talking, Priorities, Challenges
"Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice". m.imdb.com. 2016.

I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can't find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thinking, Role Models, Roles

During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Running, Moving, Sunset

What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way will we know whether our home life is normal or whether we live in a dysfunctional solar family.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Home, Science, Way
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?

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"Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Value of Philosophy". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2014.

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sleep, Intelligent, Night
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Creative, Blame, Problem
Twitter post from Aug 21, 2012

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
School, Subjects

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Faith, Believe, Knowing

With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Running, Mind Blowing, Eras
Twitter post from Jun 29, 2011

If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around earth-give me a place to go and I'll go.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Block, Tired, Space

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Memories, Science, Baggage

For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
People, Might, Odd

The most successful scientists in the history of the world are those who posed the right questions

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Business, Successful, World

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