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“When choosing a career, consider jobs where the idea of a vacation from it repulses you.”

—Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Think you got what it takes to work for Stephen Hawking?

gizmodo.com

Sometimes who you work with can be just as important as the job itself. And if physics is your passion the opportunity of a lifetime has just popped up, as Stephen Hawking is now looking for a new assistant.

“You spend the first year teaching kids to walk and talk and the rest of their childhood tell them to shut up and sit down, that's not how childhood should be. ”

—Neil deGrasse Tyson on encouraging childhood curiosity in science.

“One of the beauties of evolution is that the complexity does not come from complex ideas. The ideas are actually quite simple. You can show on a computer how those simple forces can generate complexity given enough time and enough variation in the environment, which is just what the history of Earth supplies.”

—Neil deGrasse Tyson
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