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I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.

I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Advice, Pseudoscience

If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Smart, Believe, Doctors

You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's noisy - but for you it's fun, you're resting. You're actually doing experiments... Just tell your parents that they're experiments, and you want to become a scientist, and then they won't stop you from doing anything you want.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Fun, Dirty, Parent
"Neil Degrasse Tyson Responds To Six-Year-Old – 'How Can First Graders Help The Earth?'". Neil deGrasse Tyson's speech at the NDT lecture at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, lybio.net. November 14, 2014.

Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which might one day render Earth as dry and lifeless as Mars. (From the cover of Old Poison by Joan Francis)

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Running, Oasis, Long Ago

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Democracy, World, Plans
"How Space Exploration Can Make America Great Again". Interview with Chris Heller, www.theatlantic.com. March 5, 2012.

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Philosophy, Ignorance, Intelligent

I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem is the limited capacity of the human mind to grasp the relative magnitudes of large numbers. Counting at the rate of one number per second...to count to a trillion takes 32,000 years, which is as much time as has elapsed since people first drew on cave walls.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Wall, Science, Numbers
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.301, W. W. Norton & Company

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Book, Writing, Long

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, People, Empowerment

So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thinking, Meaning Of Life, Arms

To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Believe, Light, Years
"The Latest “Cosmos” Episode Has the Best Argument Yet Against Creationism" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. March 31, 2014.

There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Knowing, People, Feelings

And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Yellow, White
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.293, W. W. Norton & Company

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Venus, Way, Eclipse
"Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Venus transit: It’s not about the ‘spectacle’" by Emi Kolawole, www.washingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.

The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moon, Adjectives, Inches

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Kids, Scientist, Grew Up

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars, Science, Missing

I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars, Environment, Havoc

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Research, Scientist, Ifs

But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Baby, Home, Simple

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Leadership, Wisdom, Spring
Twitter post from Dec 08, 2013

Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do, to the benefit of us all.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
People, Doe, Benefits
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The past is another planet.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Past, Religion
"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ Ninth Episode: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth". Documentary, May 4, 2014.

I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Limits, Ends
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Hard Work, Thinking, People
"Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air", listen.sdpb.org. February 28, 2014.

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