The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective...... Quote by "Neil deGrasse Tyson"

The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual—even redemptive—but not religious.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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 science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

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My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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 science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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