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Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist Quotes: Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
         

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.


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