Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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A novel is not a rant.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.
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In December of 2001, after September 11th, my wife, Jane Rosenthal, and Robert DeNiro asked me if I would help them create the Tribeca Film Festival. The idea was to revitalize lower Manhattan. We would show films on piers, in high schools. It was all about the community. We wanted it to be accessible to everybody.
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I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.
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I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
