Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.
Interpretation
The quote explores the origins of a fundamental question about existence and evolution.
Neil Degrasse Tyson uses the chicken-and-egg dilemma to illustrate concepts of evolutionary biology and the nature of species. By stating that the egg came first, laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken, he emphasizes the gradual process of evolution, suggesting that definitions of species are not always clear-cut and that change occurs over time.
In practice
This quote can be used in a biology class when discussing evolution and species.
The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand and justify it every year. Well, I see it as the greatest economic driver that there ever was. Economic drivers don't need justification.
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Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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