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The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.
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Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".
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The universe has never made one of anything, so why would there even be one of itself?
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The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.
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I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.
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Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.
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Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.
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That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.
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Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.
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I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of.
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If the world is something you accept rather than interpret, then you're susceptible to the influence of charismatic idiots.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
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Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.
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Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
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To declare that Earth must be the only planet in the universe with life would be inexcusably big-headed of us.
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We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.
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Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.
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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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It's better to understand something than to memorize something.
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If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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helium became the first and only element in the chemist's Periodic Table to be discovered someplace other than Earth. Okay,
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Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on "Big Bang Theory" lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe
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One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.
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People don't think the universe be like it is, but it do.
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In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.
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If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
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If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.
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If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab.
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Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).
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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.
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It's my duty to enlighten people.
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There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.
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Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.
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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
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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.'
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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.
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A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.
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The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
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Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.
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It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.
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In the beginning, there was physics.
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As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
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I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.
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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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We are born of this universe, we live in this universe, and the universe is in us.
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No day before October 10, 1582, actually occurred on the Gregorian calendar for that was when the calendar was implemented officially.
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I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.
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There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.
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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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People like death and mayhem.
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We are, each of us, a little Universe
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Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.
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The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.
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If one evening you feel sad enough to cry, look up. Your tears will not fall and the starry night may bring joy to your soul.
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Being at the top of your game intellectually, philosophically, politically, is not a forever thing.
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Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.
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Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.
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Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.
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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.
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We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe
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The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
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It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?
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Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.
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The best colleges admit only successful students, offering no evidence the college itself forged the students' late success.
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Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.
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Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
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On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)
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We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.
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where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.
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There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.
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I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.
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The Speed of Light: It's Not Just a Good Idea It's the Law. Unlike
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine
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The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.
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No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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The day gets about one second longer every 67,000 years.
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If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
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To earn the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.
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Photons are accurately and legitimately described as waves and particles at the same time. They are genuine wavicles.
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I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.
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I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"
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When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
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There are no articles any more that dream about the cities of tomorrow.
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When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.
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Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
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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.
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I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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We are only intelligent by our own measures
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