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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“But I continue to learn things every day, passively and actively. Passively, as you just notice, you know, open your eyes sometimes and see what's happening, where things are headed, what they're doing. You learn. Not all things you learn are good, and if they're bad or need adjustment, or need help. Something about it if you can. So that's how I derive meaning. Hence my tombstone. Be ashamed to die unless you scored some victory for humanity. There's the meaning for you.”
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“Compared with however that person was living yesterday. I want to I want to use what I learn. To well up within me and manifest as wisdom. Because information is not really useful until it becomes knowledge. And then knowledge is good. You can show off if you have a lot of knowledge. That's what these game shows do. But in the end, The best use of knowledge is when it becomes wisdom. And wisdom People say, I don't like getting older. I want to be young. I don't want to be young again when I was 30, I was an idiot. Even when I was 30, I thought I was brilliant, right? So Don't get older unless you have wisdom to show for it. When you don't have something to show for your age, you want to be younger. Just getting old with nothing to show for it.”
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“People are better off. Institutions are better off. People are happier, healthier, wealthier, safer, better fed. That rationality matters in politics and lawmaking. And that helps to ensure stability of anything you build going forward. But yeah, that's all I mean. It's not complicated. And you were talking about meaning before. I stopped looking for meaning decades ago because I realized. I, we, any of us, has the power to make meaning in life. If you're going to look for meaning, are you looking under a rock behind a tree? It's as though meaning is sitting there waiting for you to find it. Oh, I found meaning. There it is now my life is complete. That feels so powerless. On your own destiny I make meaning. I want to learn something today that I didn't know yesterday. I want to lessen the suffering of someone today.”
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“What choice do I have No, if you don't have free will, then you don't even have an option to say you don't. So you just live life. Just live your life. So that the world is better off for you having lived in it.”
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“And then after that peace, oh, pandemic. Okay. The 1918 flu pandemic. Hey, now we got out of that. Oh, no. Second World War. Okay, we get out of that. The Cold War. Nuclear Holocaust. Okay, so that's my That's me looking over the shoulder of the programmer”
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“Then things had happened. Then Godzilla steps through and ploughs through the city. Okay, now Godzilla is not real, but it kind of is because that would be a disaster that is it a flood, is it fires? It's a thing that nobody saw coming. Okay, we are recording this interview on September 11th. I lived four blocks from ground zero. That's Godzilla walking through the city. How do you respond to that? You didn't know that was going to happen the day before. So realizing that in this game, it's only interesting to play when disastrous things happen. Not too many in a row because you have to be able to recover. So when I look at our world, I'm thinking the best argument I have for being in a simulation is how often some big disaster takes place. When it was the first...”
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“A snot nosed alien Kid and their parents' basement programming our existence. That's what I would do. I would throw in interest. There's a game SimCity. I played that. That's how old I am. Sim City. So you were mayor of this city and people can vote you out of office. So you have to do things that make them happy. And there's an opinion poll that's there. And if you spend too much money here, you're not spending money on the schools. That's bad. But then there's crime goes up and you're realizing, oh my gosh. And even this simple simulation, so many interdependent Phenomenon are taking place. Then”
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“Actually, it wouldn't matter if we're completely simulated. What do you care? You living your life. I know we don't want to believe that there are puppet strings on us. Part of me thinks that though Just when Earth is kind of, everything on Earth is kind of stable. Oh, COVID shows up. Oh, so this is the programmer saying, you know, the Earth is too boring now. We got to spice it up a bit. They throw in a pandemic. Okay. A once in a century pandemic. Now we're entertaining for them. What do we do? Who gets vaccinated? Who doesn't? Who's going to fight? Who dies? Who lives? Okay, so then we kind of get through that. We get the vaccine. Okay, just calming down off of that. And they said, oh, let's make a billionaire real estate developer from New York City, the most powerful person in the world. Let's stir the pot again. And so now the whole other set of pot stirring that's going on. So that's kind of consistent with...”
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“For with a last universe that hasn't evolved yet to have created one of its own, because all the middles have the power to create one. So that takes it, you know, a zillion to one against us to maybe 50-50”
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“Yeah, given what we can now compute, throw in quantum computing on top of that, we don't have this power yet, but to make a world in our computer where the characters in that world believe they have free will. And then they conduct themselves, and then they invent computers, and then they make a world inside of their computer. And where their characters think they have free will. So then that simulated universes all the way down. Close your eyes and throw a dart. Which of these are you going to get the first universe that invented the simulated universe or the zillion ones that followed? The darts likely to hit one of the others. But my escape hatch from that is. Since we do not yet know or have the power to make a perfectly simulated world. It means we are either the first universe that's real that hasn't created one yet.”
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“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree, a tree whose hungry mouth is pressed against the earth's sweet flowering breast A tree that looks at God all day and lifts her leafy arms to pray A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair Upon whose bosom snow has lain Who ultimately lives with rain Poems are made by fools like me Only God can make a tree.”
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“Because so much of life. is what you might just walk by and not even give it any thought. And so I don't walk by trees without thinking something about that poem.”
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“To make sure I have wisdom that I can share with my kids, my two kids, the kind of wisdom that I glean from my parents, so that, again, this is not wisdom of what cardiby or what job to have because they have other values. They have other expectations of society. But in terms of... Human to human interaction in terms of love, in terms of challenges in life and overcoming them. Some of those are timeless. Some of those are how to navigate difficult people, how to appreciate nature so you don't take it for granted. One of the things I liked about Joyce Kilmer's poem It's about a tree. And we've all seen trees So why does this matter? Because it takes an artist A poet, a writer, a sculptor, a painter. For me, the artist's job. It is to encourage us, stimulate us, Pay attention to things we might otherwise take for granted.”
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“I miss them more than I thought I would, because they carried quite a bit of wisdom, whether my father was active in the civil rights movement, my mother was a gerontologist, so they both cared very deeply about the plight of others, and I'm their son, the astrophysicist. But so I go off with my head in the sky, but I was anchored into the human condition. And anchored to think about it, to care about it. I encountered Things in modern life. I wonder what my mother would say about that. I wonder what insights my father, and they're not there. I don't have them for that. So the way it's changed me is it has put a greater expectation of me on myself.”
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“It did a little bit, not as much as I thought it might have. My father's eighty nine when he died, that was five years ago. My mother was two days shy of her ninety fifth birthday. So I'm putting myself right between them and my life expectancy. I think I'll get to'92. It's the average of those two. When you die at that age, It's sad, but it's not tragic. So that's an important distinction for me. A tragic life is a life that could have been lived but through act of war or negligence or negligence of the person or of others, the life is cut short. A life not fully lived. But if you lived a full life? married fifty something years? Its sabb is not tragic. In fact, it's not even sad. It's something to celebrate. And so I miss them.”
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“That deer is just flying. The deer was born in the woods, is finding food, is grown up? Whereas I need other people to survive in this world. I don't know how to hunt. I don't know how to skin game. I don't know how, you know, I'd like knowing that there's a quart of milk waiting for me on the grocery store and ready to eat cereals. We have an interdependence as never before. And how do we maintain that without scattering to the winds?”
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“Everyone comes together, and they're all in one room at the same time. Not happening today, like you said, but there's a people are less religious today than ever before. There are many people who were once religious would today, statistically, would today say they're spiritual, which means they're separated from the rules and regulations that typically dictate how you behave within a religion. But the fact is you're talking about going upwards, so you have your city, your community, your neighbors, and your church, your synagogue, your mosque, your temple, whatever is the place where you gather with some frequency. Surely has value. Because we need each other I'm jealous when I, you know, you drive down the country road and there's a deer just walking around. And I'm thinking. Society”
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“Oh, let me get back to that. It may be that the most important role of church. Wasn't to give a specific recipe for how you pray or again who you pray to or when you maybe that's maybe that wasn't its greatest value maybe it's greatest value was the community that it created”
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“Because I don't care what your opinion is. I don't care that you have my opinion. What I care about as an educator, and especially as a scientist, is that your opinion is based on objective reality, objective truths. If you have an opinion where the foundation of it is, what do you, what? Then you're just floating. There's no, and then if you rise to power of laws and legislation, and then you shape a society based on what you think is true or want to be true rather than what is objectively true, that's a recipe for the unraveling of civilization as we know it. So this loneliness bit, I don't know how to comment on that. I don't have the expertise, but I do know that I don't want to be the person on the rocking chair. Get off my lawn.”
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“When they come up in the ranks, they'll be mature adults, they'll figure out what the rhythms are of that world. And I will say, however, that if you go far enough back, no one ever traveled anywhere. You'd spend your whole life not going more than 30 miles from your hometown a couple hundred years back. So now people do actually communicate with countless thousands of people around the world. So it's different. Again, I'm not value judging it, but it's different. And you're exposed to different ideas, maybe it tribalizes you more, or maybe it softens you. It has the power to do both. What concerns me is because when I post to social media, I've learned the art of not expressing an opinion.”
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“There have been studies about the psychological effects of this kind of life, basically the social media too early in one's life force that operates. But I. So, I don't know. I don't want to be the person who says, in my day, we did it right, and you young uns don't know what you're doing and you're all gonna, I mean, I've seen the films of people, officials smashing pinball machines with sledgehammers saying it will be the death of the next generation because they're not studying, it's gambling, I've seen, you've seen people burning rock and roll records. You've seen, we've seen this. And I don't want to be that guy. I'd rather be the person that says. Going to create a whole other reality. That was not my reality growing up. And I don't know that I can or should value judge that.”
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“And so you keep them out, you do whatever you can to preserve your traditions relative to theirs. Ultimately, that in its worst manifestation is all out war. You just kill people who don't believe the way you do. So maybe. Religion is kind of what defined humans in the fossil record. I mean, like I said, that's an interesting inversion of that question. Not when did humans begin being religious? You define Who we are as humans as when religion showed up in the burial grounds of the”
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“I don't know Yeah, I don't know. We're pretty sure there's a survival benefit of groupthink. Religion is groupthink if there ever was. It was we will believe this. In this way, and we will behave in that way on those occasions, and you will not deviate from it And part of that package of beliefs includes statements about the afterlife and how you should behave in this life. Otherwise, you don't go to heaven, you go to hell. I don't think Judaism has a hell, but you're not as rewarded as you'd otherwise be. Now that forms a corpus of beliefs that can be highly binding of a people's. And especially if some other peoples come up and they do other things and you don't understand it, you don't know what it is, and they're a threat.”
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“And in fact, in Greece, I read this. It's not that I researched it, and I'm not a scholar in this, but that when they buried you, they put a coin. In your mouth or in your hand somewhere on your body so that when you got into Hades, you can tip the ferry boat driver to cross the river Styx to get into Hades. You might even say that's the beginning of what it was to be human when people started thinking that way about dying. Might even invert the question and say it's not when did we start, it's we existed in all the ways we know Came Ancestors”
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“So, the best way to ask that is let's go back to the earliest humans we have fossil records of. And we can go back to Neanderthal, for example. Neanderthal is a branch hominids that went extinct, basically. There's some crossbreeding and there's Neanderthal DNA in many humans today. But as a branch of the hominids, they went extinct. So Neanderthal, then there's Cro-Magnon. We are Homo sapiens coming after Cro-Magnon. And so when you look at burial grounds, The Neanderthal bury their dead with things, with parts of their life, of the person who died. Now why would you do that unless you had some belief that There was something more to come for that person. I mean, probably the people who took it to the limit were the Egyptians, all right, for the Egyptian royalty. I mean, they bury you with all kinds of...”
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“Right, and there's no doubt that religion has been one of the greatest forces operating on civilization ever since civilization. When you look at as a source of people's behavior, what they eat, like I said, who they sleep with, where they sleep, where they worship, who they worship, all around the world, from atomistic native peoples where there's a spirit, energy imbued in the mountain, in the brook, in the wind, to the monotheistic religions, to the polytheistic religions. We don't call them that, to put distance between us, but the Greek gods were, it was their religion. We call it mythology. It was their religion, the Greek gods, the Roman gods. So I'm conversational in all of this so that when someone says, how do I feel? What do I feel? Think I can do that without just being obnoxious. And so, and we have a meaningful conversation.”
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“Bits of literature from Jehovah's Witnesses because they'll come to your door and they want to hand you. So I acquired all these books and I mostly read them. I skimmed all of them and read some of them with a little more intensity than others. All right. On doing so that enabled me, empowered me to have more meaningful conversations with people who were religious. Much more meaningful and more informed. That's the key. I don't want to speak about a religion unless I know as much as I can about it. As an academic, that should be what would be true of any subject. You're an academic, you care what's true, not what you think is true, what is true, or what people think.”
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“Before I was more recognized, you know, I'd be in an airplane. What do you do? What do you do? They find out I do astrophysics. Then out come the questions. Oh, tell me about black holes, relativity, the Big Bang, aliens, okay, and would always land on God. And I used to give pretty straight. Unforgiving answers to that question, to that inquiry. But then I thought that's not fair. There are people whose lives pivot around their religious beliefs and their spirituality. And just because I've been discounting it since I was eight, I shouldn't use that as a force against them. I should at least Understand where they're coming from. So I systematically acquired religious books. Of all kinds, so I have the Torah, I have multiple copies of the Quran, Joseph Smith's account that led to the Mormons. I have multiple”
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“You know, your kid comes up to you and says, Mommy Daddy, I want to be a YouTube influencer. And you're saying, what? Go back to school. No, and then they become a YouTube influencer and they out earn you. So the divide is greater than ever before between one generation and the next, for sure. But. Time I turned eight Found that religious teachings less and less convincing. And so by the time I was nine, when I discovered the universe, or really the universe discovered me, a first visit to my local planetarium. So yeah, I wouldn't call it an evolution, but I will say this. You didn't ask this, but it relates.”
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“It depends on what you mean by evolution. I was raised Catholic. But we were raised basically in a secular household, even though we would go to church every weekend. What I mean by that is we come home at no time do either of my parents say don't do that Jesus is watching. You keep that up, you'll go to hell. Do this because it'll please God. Never was there such a conversation as that in the household. So the household was driven by Objective truths or life experience, as would be brought from elders to a next generation, something that was more common in that generation than in the current generation, because now elders don't know anything about anything.”
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“There's an old saying if an argument lasts more than five minutes, then both sides are wrong. It's true probably 80 90% of the time, but it's something definitely something to think about.”
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“It's You're fighting over that line in the sand? When I'm out here at the moon looking at Earth, this fragile ecosystem, do you realize Earth's atmosphere is to Earth with the skin of an apple is to an apple in terms of thickness? So I see people trashing the planet, fighting one another. Again, just based on who's on what side of the line in the sand or who they worship, who they don't worship, or what their skin color is, or where they were born, what language they speak, what accent they have. And I step back from orbit. Ocean, land, clouds From the Moon there's Earth suspended there in space. I almost don't want to zoom in on it. Because people value what they think is true more than what True. There are objective truths out there. But it's almost as though people Fight and argue more vehemently the last”
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“On civilization, one in your left hand there. That one is, is what conflict in the world looks like when you are scientifically literate? And you have a dose of cosmic perspective on top of it.”
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“Race friction that existed around the world, but especially in colonial Europe and the slave trade and all of this. And, okay, that's not good. It's bad. And all right, but then you look at World War I and World War II. That's white people fighting white people, slaughtering them in great numbers. So you can divide by skin color, but apparently people find plenty of reasons to divide and conquer, to divide and kill, to divide and oppress. And skin color is one in a long list of all the reasons people have given to the religious wars, to worshiping the different God or worshiping the God differently. These are human beings. And I wrote a whole book, I think one of those books in your stash, that one, cosmic perspective.”
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“You can overanalyze. I mean, if you look deeper than whatever people are saying is the reason they are marching or arguing, you just part the curtains and unpack it all. At the bottom of that is. There's a tribe here and a tribe here, and they think this way and they think that way. And never the twain meet unless we rethink how we interact with one another. Think about it. You know, with the race.”
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“Yeah, what's interesting is one of my deep concerns about the world is many philosophies or religions that say we are one, they find some other philosophy that differs and then they go to war. I don't mean to laugh at that, but we're not good at feeling oneness with everyone. It's easy to feel oneness with our tribe. Our tribe could be skin color, religion, who you sleep with, who you don't sleep with, what food you eat, what rituals you perform. And so those people choose sides based on so many factors. It's actually to me as a scientist, it's disturbing how easily and quickly we will divide each other. And make that the reason for how you interact, rather than see what we have in common and make that the reason for why we would come together.”
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“We often, not just you, not just you. You haven't. So. You consider all of this. It's not just that we're alive in the universe. The universe is alive within us. And that discovery. Orders on the spiritual. And it's a scientific result. So when I look up at night, I never feel small I feel large I feel as large as the universe itself because that's where we came from We're participant in a great unfolding story of cosmic evolution”
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“The universe is alive within us. So we're special because we're the same as the universe. Often when people think they're special, I want to be different from no. We're saying because we have human DNA on an earth where we have DNA in common with all other animals, all other life forms on earth. Do you realize we and mushrooms have more in common with each other than either we or mushrooms have with green plants? The common ancestor between fungus and animals split later in the tree of life than its common ancestor split with green plants. You have 20% identical genes to a banana.”
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“Other. Okay. So we are one for one matched to the ingredients of the universe. And one of the gifts of 20th century astrophysics is gifts to civilization is where those ingredients came from. We trace those ingredients. The hydrogen to the Big Bang itself, and all these heavier elements to stars that manufacture those elements in their core and the crucible that is their core. They lived out their lives. They exploded, scattered that enrichment into gas clouds so that the next generation of stars would have planets, and on at least one of them. As we know it, life on Earth, so that You can think of us not just figuratively, but literally composed of stardust. So that it's not that we are alive in the universe. Yes, that's true.”
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“And all right, what's the next most abundant element in your body? It's oxygen attached to the water H two O and both the H and the O appear in many, many other molecules in our body. In the DNA and in your muscle tissue, all of this, and in the blood. Okay, what's third? Carbon, which you would have thought had to be somewhere on the list because you know where carbon-based life. Fourth is nitrogen. Fifth, I'll put them all together and just say other. Okay. So that's the sequence of elements. And now you say, what are the sequence of elements in the universe? The number one is hydrogen. The number two is helium, but that's chemically inert. You might remember from high school chemistry, you can't do anything with it anyway. Helium. Next in the universe, oxygen. Next, carbon. Next nitrogen. Next”
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“Well, there's the light from the most distant galaxies has been traveling for nearly fourteen billion years. ten billion years more than Earth has even existed. If you want to get a sense of that. And so, but think about it a whole other way. That if you look at the ingredients of life, Not just human life, but life on Earth. You can rank the elements. What's the number one element in life? We could mention the human body. Number one element is hydrogen. That's contained in the H two O of the water content of your body, which, depending on how chubby you are, can be anywhere from a half to three quarters of your body weight, is water.”
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“Yes, the universe is huge in size, in age, in contents. There's nothing we can put on the table that can rival those measurements that we make of the universe. However,”
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“My remaining life, whereas if I'm never going to die, then mathematically that would mean I'd lead a life of no meaning at all because there's no way to focus an infinity amount of time into anything and have it be meaningful. So I'm taking mortality as a very serious force operating on happiness, productivity. Can you do something for the world? And on my tombstone. What I want to say is a quote from Horace Mann Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. I want to have made a difference in the world, I want the world to have been better off because I lived in it. Is that too much to ask of any of us? Really? We're all capable of good deeds. So If the world is better off, I've played my part. a citizen of planet Earth.”
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“I think we all do at some point, and especially the more you've lived, the more it all sort of you ask what it all mean, how does it all come together? What will it mean to me in five years, ten years? I don't know if you're old enough to think about your mortality. But that's a thing when you have fewer years left than the years you've lived. And you can, I think the way they say it is you can have a good expectation to live as long as your parents did. I lost both of them in the last five years. So that's my horizon and the fact that we die. Has a capacity to bring focus into the remaining time you're alive. Think about it if knowing you're going to die. Brings focus and purpose and resolve. An action Then if you lived forever, what's your hurry? Me, knowing I'm going to die. Gives meaning”
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“And that's the next problem. People value what they think is true more than what is true. That's a recipe for the unraveling of civilization as we know it. But as a scientist, show me the data.”
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“Well, there's nothing that we can put on the table that can rival the measurements of the universe. And we are literally composed of stardust. So when people think they're different, they have DNA in common with all of the life forms on Earth. Like you have 20% identical genes who have bananas. Okay, we often, not just you, and that's not all. There are molecules that went in and out of your lungs that are in China being breathed by people. And go further back. Jesus inhaled them. So how's that the oneness with others?”
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“A scientist, it's disturbing how easily people divide each other based on skin color, religion, what food you eat, what language they speak, and then they find some other philosophy that differs and then they go to war. But when I step back with a cosmic perspective, you realize how ridiculous it is.”
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“What would be sad is if that number got to 100%, then the civilization just goes back to the cave where everything that happened in the natural world was created by forces beyond our knowledge and understanding. So if you want to think you're not in control of your fate because the sun, moon, and planets are, it's a free country. But I'm creating meaning in my life because I can control that”
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