Neil deGrasse Tyson

astrophysicist

America's most prominent science communicator who makes cosmic vocabulary accessible while never sacrificing scientific precision.

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  1. adj. 1 helping to learn; guiding in discovery or investigation; 2 using or obtained by exploration of possibilities rather than by following set rules

    A useful heuristic for understanding physics. (Attributed to Neil Degrasse Tyson)
  2. adj. capable of being proved or disproved by observation or experiment

    Empirical evidence is the gold standard. (Attributed to Neil Degrasse Tyson)
  3. n. a pattern; example; or model an overall concept accepted by most people in an intellectual community; as those in one of the natural sciences; because of its effectiveness in explaining a complex process; idea; or set of dataGram. an example of

    A new paradigm in astronomy. (Attributed to Neil Degrasse Tyson)
  4. adj. concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than their practical applications

    Theoretical frameworks for the multiverse. (Attributed to Neil Degrasse Tyson)

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