Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

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

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• The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

  

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• Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.

  

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• I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

  

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• The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

  

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• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

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• Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.

  

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• Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

  

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• 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
  • Time
  • Space
  • Grandparents