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title = "Neil deGrasse Tyson"
weight = 110

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tags = ["quotes", "neil degrasse tyson", "life", "past", "future", "education",
"thinking", "criticism"]
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> "Life is fragile We live 80 years. But we’re dead after 8 weeks without
> food, 8 days without water, 8 minutes without air."

> "There are more stars in the universe than all the sounds and words ever
> uttered by all humans who have ever lived."

> "The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our
> ability to assess why that information may be false."

> "We are prisoners of the present, in perpetual transition from an
> inaccessible past to an unknowable future."

> "We spend more time forcing students to learn than we do motivating them to
> learn in the first place."

> "If pundits tells you something is true, and you don't have the critical
> thinking skills to evaluate their statements, then you are putty in their
> hands, as they shape your world view to their will."