Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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I set out to tell my story, which is based on my family. Dr. Cosby told his story in 'The Cosby Show.' The comparisons stop there in terms of my creation of the show. We just both happen to have black fathers at the center of it.
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An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.
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Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
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It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.