Neil deGrasse Tyson quotes - page 9

The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth. View quote
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There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end. View quote
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Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy' at gatherings of amateur astronomers. View quote
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'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines. View quote
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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.' View quote
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Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology. View quote
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Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It's not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks. View quote
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If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist. View quote
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NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery. View quote
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What is NASA's mission? Is it to beat the russians? Is it to inspire? (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
As important as Steve Jobs was, no doubt about it - [and] you have to add him to Bill Gates, because they birthed the personal computing revolution kind of together - here's the difference: Elon Musk is trying to invent a future, not by providing the next app. View quote
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This universality of physical laws drives scientific discovery like nothing else. View quote
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In our own solar system, for example, everything that is not the Sun adds up to less than one fifth of one percent of the Sun's mass. View quote
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Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful. For, by knowledge derived from this science, not only the bulk of the Earth is discovered . . . ; but our very faculties are enlarged with the grandeur of the ideas it conveys, our minds exalted above [their] low contracted prejudices. View quote
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