📚 2 Books mentioned in "StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Curiosities with Neil deGrasse Tyson" of StarTalk Radio
Podcast: StarTalk Radio
Episode: StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Curiosities with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Published on October 11, 2019
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Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry
and one of my recent books, the front piece, I mean, the epigraph, epigram, epigram or epigraph? I always forget, what they're called. (laughs) - If you don't know, I'm not gonna help. - I just said, I just baptize people into this by saying the universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson mentions a quote from one of his recent books, referring to it as the epigraph.
The Right Stuff
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Not for our greatest of frontier, no, so, we have the right stuff. (Paul laughs) If you just buy the right stuff, it ain't the right stuff.
Neil deGrasse Tyson references 'the right stuff' in the context of the American image of space travel.