American - Scientist | October 5, 1958 -
I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
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People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.
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Many academicians don't even own a television, much less watch one.
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Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.
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For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.
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Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.
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If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
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As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
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The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
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Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomorrow's economies.
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