Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

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• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

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• In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

  

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• I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

  

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• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

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• I like to do Pilates.

  

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• I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.

  

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• Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Pretty