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Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

From Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

From Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

From Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

From Neil deGrasse Tyson

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

From Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.

From Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

From Neil deGrasse Tyson

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

From Neil deGrasse Tyson

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