Mara Wilson Quote

I meet Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at a book signing and ask him how he doesn’t have an existential crisis every day; he knows exactly how insignificant he is, but he seems pretty happy. Your name’s Mara? he says, and I nod. Mara, let me ask you something. Have you taken a philosophy class? Yeah, I took ethics and logic and some other ones, I say. How did you know? Because only people who have taken philosophy classes use the word ‘existential.’ I am officially less down-to-earth than an astrophysicist.

Mara Wilson

I meet Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at a book signing and ask him how he doesn’t have an existential crisis every day; he knows exactly how insignificant he is, but he seems pretty happy. Your name’s Mara? he says, and I nod. Mara, let me ask you something. Have you taken a philosophy class? Yeah, I took ethics and logic and some other ones, I say. How did you know? Because only people who have taken philosophy classes use the word ‘existential.’ I am officially less down-to-earth than an astrophysicist.

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