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I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

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What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do t...more

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Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, th...more

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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.

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In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay of th...more

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Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that i...more

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When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk th...more

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Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that sci...more

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I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEAR...more

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I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that...more

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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surpr...more

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If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it'...more

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The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light ele...more

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Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They...more

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The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.