Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots. Often, I was relegated to my origins, put in the diversity box: 'You're the new face of diversity.' That annoyed me because I always felt French, and suddenly I was being made to feel I wan't as French as others.
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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives.
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I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'
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I just love music. I love writing songs. It's not even a job; it's a gift. I'm waiting for someone to kick me out of the party because I snuck in here, and I keep thinking somebody's going to figure out that I have no clue. Turns out that most of them have even less of a clue.
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I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.
