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We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Earth Old Thinking Universe
If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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Earth Inspirational Motivational Planet Power
If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Enough People Smart Success Yourself
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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Criticism People Thinking Truth
When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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Appearance Beginning Time Try Universe
You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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Annoy Change Children Culture Food Pieces Question Reward Rise Yourself
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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God Ignorance Move Science Small Time
The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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God Need Satisfaction Stop Understand World
Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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Courage Generation Ourselves
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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Desperate Opinion True Truth Yourself
In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Change Curiosity End People World
God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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Build Display Entertainment God Humor Ourselves System
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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Believe Goodness Science True Yourself
Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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Capacity Law Nature People Seek Thinking Victim Yourself
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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Drive Philosophy Suffering Surprise World Yourself
I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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Alien Close Earth Examination Fact Human Intelligence Life

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