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  • Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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    It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching, you can always find someone who made a well-sounding statement that confirms your point of view and, on every topic, it is possible to find another dead thinker who said the exact opposite.

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  • Author Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

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  • Author Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink-or never arise at all-and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered each other because of them.

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  • Author Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    My interest in the space program has a certain purity to it because I recognize the romance of it but I was never seduced by it. That allowed me to view it through a more purely scientific lens. My interest in space while in school came about through my scientific activities.

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  • Author Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in the educational pipeline. It's vital to our prosperity and security.

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  • Author Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

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  • Author Norman Tebbit
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    It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

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  • Author Norman Tebbit
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    Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

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  • Author Nikola Tesla
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    From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

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