Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
Interpretation
The quote humorously critiques the human anatomy by comparing it to an absurdly designed structure.
Neil Degrasse Tyson uses humor to highlight the peculiarities of human anatomy, suggesting that the design of our reproductive system is both complex and flawed. By comparing it to an entertainment complex amidst a sewage system, he emphasizes the irony of a place meant for pleasure being juxtaposed with something unpleasant, prompting reflection on the mysteries of biological design.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a light-hearted gathering to spark laughter.
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.
As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.
In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.
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.
Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.
If you can't make fun of yourself, you don't have any right to make fun of others
The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.
Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.
Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.
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