"When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study the universe just like me - how could they not? This naivetÃ© is what tells me that my interest was more a calling than a rational comparative assessment about what to be when I grew up."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Kids Quotes #Assessment Quotes #Calling Quotes

“When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.”
“I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.”
“Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.”
“I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.”
“I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.”
“I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).”
“There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!”
“Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence.”

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