Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher; a community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. (From the first Cosmos: ASO episode, Standing Up in the Milky Way.)

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)

From the first episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

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