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Saturday, 2 May 2015

Definitely a real quote


I found it on the internet so it must be true.
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5 comments:

  1. Adventures In Blender3 May 2015 at 12:00

    This dude just always rubbed me the wrong way.  Probably the whole string theory thing.  And that fact that he always seems to me to be  more interested in promoting himself than science.  Well if you can count ST as science hides

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  2. Rhys Taylor3 May 2015 at 12:16

    Adventures In Blender I know what you mean. For me, it's Neil de Grasse Tyson who really grinds my gears. I just can't stand him. Can't say I'm a fan of Brian Cox either.
    Yet for some reason I quite like Michio Kaku. While Tyson is manically hyperactive about even the most uninteresting facts, and Cox wouldn't get excited if aliens abducted him, Kaku is closer to the middle ground. Somehow he just doesn't convey an impression of self-promotion (to me anyway) in the way that I see Tyson doing by the bucketful. Can't really explain why that is. Perhaps because he seems a bit more willing to entertain speculation.

    I don't have a firm opinion on string theory, so that probably helps too. :)

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  3. Adventures In Blender3 May 2015 at 12:24

    Well I still haven't forgiven NDT for the whole Pluto not being planet thing :P

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  4. Rhys Taylor3 May 2015 at 12:25

    LIKEWISE ! That was actually the first time I saw him  on TV. We got off on the wrong foot and it's just gone downhill from there !

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  5. David Lazarus4 May 2015 at 20:39

    Rhys Taylor - I'm with you on Neil de Grasse Tyson.

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