Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  Math, Bad Ass, People

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• In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Years, Identity

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.

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  Mean, Cameras, Pages

  "Q&a: Neil Degrasse Tyson Talks 'Cosmos,' Dark Energy and Seth Macfarlane". Fox Conference Call Interview, gazette.com. March 05, 2014.

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• Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

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  Philosophy, Ignorance, Intelligent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Long Ago, Age

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2014

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• George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is the God who named the stars. The problem is: two-thirds of all stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. That would confound the point that he was making.

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  Stars, Thinking, Names

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• You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

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  Math, Years, Novelists

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

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  Years, Television, Aliens

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.242, W. W. Norton & Company

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• UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.

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  Science, Energy, Molecules

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• You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.

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  Newton, Theory, Cases

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

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  Understanding, Chemistry, Physics

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2012

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• The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

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  Attitude, Kids, Agency

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence.

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  Physics, Quantum, Fluctuation

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks God, Aliens, And Multiverses". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2015.

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• Todo lo que entendemos sobre el universo -la tabla periódica de los elementos, las leyes de Einstein, las leyes de Newton, toda la química, toda la biología- es el 4% del universo. Llegamos a la Luna con el 4% que conocemos. Aterrizamos en Marte con el 4% que entendemos. Así que el día que rompamos la nuez del resto de ese 95 por ciento... Dios mío.

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  Moon, Law, Nuts

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

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  Animal, Empathy, Feelings

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• En realidad, el universo nunca ha hecho las cosas de una en una. ¿La Tierra es especial y todo lo demás es diferente? No, tenemos otros siete planetas. ¿El Sol? No, el sol es uno de esos puntos en el cielo nocturno. ¿La Vía Láctea? No, es una de cien mil millones de galaxias. Y el universo... tal vez sean incontables universos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Noche, Cielo, Especial

  "¿Por qué revivir 'Cosmos'? Neil DeGrasse Tyson dice que casi todo lo que sabemos ha cambiado". Entrevista con David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. 4 de marzo de 2014.

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• The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

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  People, Versions

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• Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that if they just have everybody learning what is, they're not going to be in a position to invent a tomorrow because their brain isn't even wired to go in that direction.

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  Technology, Innovation, Brain

  Fuente: www.denofgeek.com

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• Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good at science in school. Science is around you. Once you know and embrace that fact, it might stimulate curiosity within you to learn more about the natural world.

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  School, Curiosity, World

  Fuente: collider.com

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• After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

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  Cherish, Universe

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.

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  Stars, Wine, Oxygen

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• Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

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  Memories, Identity, Doe

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?

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  Dinosaurs, Asteroids, Saws

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth". publicradioeast.org. 2014.

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• How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!"

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  Impossible, Workplace, Problem

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ignorance, Vaccines, World

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