Neil deGrasse
Neil deGrasse
alive natural result
Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.
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It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make of it just so we can believe we understand what's going on.
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The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
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Modern-day access has completely changed how we talk about and think about the frontier of the cosmos. This is a modern-day incarnation of what used to be a team of artists who would sit there with a canvas and sort of paint up something that was described to them, to be photographed and put in the sky. This is a new generation of the representation of the frontier of science.
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It's a bullet that will just miss us.
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It's a collaboration that goes clear to Japan. It's a new generation of representations of the sky.
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Every day, I wake up and I say, 'Why... how... did I end up with 1.7 million Twitter followers?' It's freaky to me, every day, but that tells me that there's an appetite out there that had previously been underserved. There's an inner geek in us all, an inner bit of curiosity that people are discovering, and they like it.
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'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge of the universe, but we're going to land right on you: in your heart, in your soul, in your mind. My goal is to have people know that they are participants in this great unfolding cosmic story.
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I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.
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Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward - as an investment in our economy.
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If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands.
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Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.