Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes — Page 21

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Philosophical

“I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.”

Thinking Successful

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Philosophical

“When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.”

Believe Discovery Belief

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Ambitious

“Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.”

Space Investment Gps

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Philosophical

“We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find out, "Well, this works because there's certain regimes we've never tested it in." Had we done so, we would show that it didn't work: For example, at very high speeds, very high gravity, Newton's laws fail. They just fail. You need Einstein's laws of motion and gravity. Those would be his special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity. Now you invoke those and it works.”

Law Moon Special

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Courageous

“The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up.”

Moving Might Caves

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Angry

“But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.”

Media Culture News

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Philosophical

“Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path.”

Might Path Clouds

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Angry

“I am not the most annoying person to bring to a movie 'cause I basically hold it in and write about it later or tweet about it. The most annoying people to bring to movies, I think we all agree, are those who read the book first.”

Thinking Writing Book

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Determined

“And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.”

Children Science Hard Work

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Spiritual

“If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation.”

Spiritual Firsts Scientist

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Ambitious

“Astrophysicists perfected navigation. We perfected all these things that matter to the power of nations manifest on the world stage. So we want to go into space. That's the new high ground, right? We care about multispectral imaging of things. Well, that's what reconnaissance wants to do. So our expertise has been in bed with national security needs forever. So maybe, secretly, that's why they keep us employed.”

Space Forever Bed

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Angry

“You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?”

Mean Cat Vets

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