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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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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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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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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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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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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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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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I went from being one of the best players, batting .550, to not being able to do it mentally, hitting .200. I thought I was mentally tough. But I couldn't hit the ball.
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I love music; I love performance. I love everything revolving around art. But I also am really passionate about politics and human rights and science and the environment. Those are things that fascinate me.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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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.
