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War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Strong, Wall, War. Source: blog.sfgate.com. NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers.
- “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 surprised how far that gets you.”
- “The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson.
- “Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life.
- “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” ― Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
- If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you’d see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 25, 2012.
- According to the song, Rudolph’s nose is shiny, which means it reflects rather than emits light. Useless for navigating fog. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 25, 2011.
- The most boring constellation: Triangulum Australis. A profound lack of imagination – any 3 stars in the sky makes a triangle. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) September 19, 2011.
- Just an FYI: Roman Numerals have no zero because it was not yet invented, allowing year 2000 to be written efficiently as MM. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) August 22, 2011.
- On Science
- On NASA Funding
- On Naming Natural Phenomena
- On The Benefits of Technology Invented For Use in Space
- On The Demotion of Pluto from Planet Status
- On James Cameron's Titanic
- On Death by Asteroid
- On The Motivations Behind America's Moonshot
- On Intelligent Life
- Practical Advice in The Event of Alien Contact
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it." —From Real Time with Bill Maher
"As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I’d prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the...
"Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes … The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms." —From Death by Black Hole
"Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope." (Editor's note: technology used to repair the Hubble Space Telescope's optical problems led to improved technology for breast cancer detection.) —From Space Chronicles
"I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a drawer full of hate lettersfrom hundreds of elementary schoolchildren (with supportive cover letters from their science teachers) pleading with me to reverse my stance on Pluto. The file includes a photograph of th...
"In [Titanic], the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs … we are treated to her view of this Hollywood sky—one where the stars on the right half of the scene trace the mirror image of the stars in the left half. How lazy can you get?" —From Death by Black Hole
"On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death." —From Space Chronicles
"[L]et us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do." —From The Sky Is Not the Limit
"Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life."
"[I]f an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader." —From Death by Black Hole A version of this list first ran in 2012.
“With only rare exceptions, history shows that while strategy and bravery can win a battle, the frontiers of science and technology must be exploited to win a war.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
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