God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that as scientific knowledge expands, the concept of God becomes less relevant to explain the universe.
Neil Degrasse Tyson's quote reflects the idea that as human understanding of science progresses, the gaps in knowledge that might have been attributed to a deity are continually shrinking. This indicates a move towards a more rational and empirical worldview, where supernatural explanations become less necessary as we discover more about the universe through scientific inquiry.
In practice
During a lecture on the importance of scientific discovery, I might say, 'As Neil Degrasse Tyson aptly puts it, God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.'
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.
The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period.
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One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
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My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.
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