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2015 (MMXV) will be a common year starting on Thursday. In the Gregorian calendar, it is the 2015th year in the Common Era (or Anno Domini), the 15th year of the 3rd millennium and 21st century, and the 6th of the 2010s decade.
Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. In an older and closely related meaning (found, for example, in Aristotle), "science" refers to the body of reliable knowledge itself, of the type that can be logically and rationally explained (see History and philosophy below). Since classical antiquity science as a type of knowledge was closely linked to philosophy. In the early modern era the words "science" and "philosophy" were sometimes used interchangeably in the English language. By the 17th century, natural philosophy (which is today called "natural science") was considered a separate branch of philosophy. However, "science" continued to be used in a broad sense denoting reliable knowledge about a topic, in the same way it is still used in modern terms such as library science or political science.
Neil deGrasse Tyson ( /ˈniːəl dəˈɡræs ˈtaɪsən/ born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. Since 2006 he has hosted the educational science television show NOVA scienceNOW on PBS, and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Jeopardy!. It was announced on August 5, 2011, that Tyson will be hosting a new sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series.
Tyson was born as the second of three children in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, but was raised in the Bronx. His mother, Sunchita Feliciano Tyson, was a gerontologist and his father, Cyril deGrasse Tyson, was a sociologist, human resource commissioner for the New York City mayor, John Lindsay, and was the first Director of HARYOU. Tyson attended the Bronx High School of Science (1972–1976, astrophysics emphasis) where he was captain of the wrestling team and was editor-in-chief of the school's Physical Science Journal. Tyson had an abiding interest in astronomy from the age of eleven, following his visit to the Hayden Planetarium at age nine. Tyson recalls that "so strong was that imprint [of the night sky] that I'm certain that I had no choice in the matter, that in fact, the universe called me." He obsessively studied astronomy in his teens, and eventually even gained some fame in the astronomy community by giving lectures on the subject at the age of fifteen.
The world is yours,
it's your exercise book,
the pages on which you do sums.
The life is yours,
it is a gift to you,
the stages on which you play blues.
The rage is paid,
the rain is here today,
it could maybe give enough for me.
The freedom for
everyone in this world
it's part of you, human being.
'Cause you're also free to write nonsense,
you might be dreaming on and on ... and again!
'Cause you've got to try,
yes, you've got to try to be wrong!
Through your lifetime,
through your lifetime,
you just like elemental stuff
but only if you enjoy the time.
Sure of yourself,
you play in major keys,
you've got to wake up to a dream ...
'Cause you're also free to write nonsense,
you might be dreaming on and on ... and again!
'Cause you've got to try,
yes, you've got to try to be wrong!
'Cause you're also free to write nonsense,
you might be dreaming on and on ...
'Cause you're also free to write nonsense,
you might be dreaming on and on ... and again!
'Cause you've got to try,