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  1. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence.
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  2. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that!" -EDGAR MITCHELL, APOLLO 14 ASTRONAUT, 1974
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  3. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    Let's get China to leak a memo that says they want to build military bases on Mars. We'd be on Mars in twelve months.
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  4. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard-explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.
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  5. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    To declare that Earth must be the only planet in the universe with life would be inexcusably big-headed of us."
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  6. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself.
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  7. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.
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  8. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    Each component of this trinity of human endeavor-science, religion, and art-lays powerful claim to our feelings of wonder, which derive from an embrace of the mysterious. Where mystery is absent, there can be no wonder.
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  9. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.No judgment implied. Just an observation."
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  10. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ballpoint pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of approximately $1 million US. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.
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  11. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership {which happens to be one-fifth the mass of the Moon}, thus disarming its protective force field. I don't know about you, but back in 1996 I had trouble just uploading files to other computers within my own department, especially when the operating systems were different. There is only one solution: the entire defense system for the alien mothership must have been powered by the same release of Apple Computer's system software as the laptop computer that delivered the virus.
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  12. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.
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