Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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2017
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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2006
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Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
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2022
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
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2004
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Letters From An Astrophysicist
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2019
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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
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2012
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
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2008
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
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2018
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Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
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Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour
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2016
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Live teachers in a classroom or lecture hall are not nearly as inspiring as they should be. This empirical fact tells me that in-person lectures are over-rated and could easily be replaced with guided, on-line educational tools. The success of the Ka
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I agree! I got my degree online and a decade before the pandemic. I found the self drive to study most impactful.
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The 'thing' about being in person...is engaging with your professor and the engagement in class. There is a loss with not being in person at least in
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All disaster movies begin with authorities ignoring scientists who warn of impending doom. Reality appears to be no different. -NDTyson
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Read Starry Messenger several months after I finished writing it. Always an edifying thing to do. This allowed me to reflect in its content as reader rather than as a writer -- two different assignments, of course. I'd delighted to report that Starry M ...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 surprised how far that gets you.”
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“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. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
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