In response to the House Un-American Activities Committee's ban on radio recording and television cameras from public hearings (1 February 1949), quoted in The New York Times http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9500E1DC173FE03ABC4E53DFB4668382659EDE&legacy=true
“Time is like opinions. If that makes sense to you, then it's true. Therefore, it is real based on your location.”
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“Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.”
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Omega (2003), Chapter 33 (p. 348)
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties
2000s, To Live Beyond Our Fear (2007)
Context: The thing that I want you all to remember: please, please, don’t base your vote, this time, on fear. Base it on possibility. Think. Listen. The game of politics is to make you afraid so that you don’t think. And what we need right now isn’t political rhetoric, it isn’t game-playing. We need leadership; we need people with judgment; we need decent people, people with common sense, people with strong family values. People who understand the world.
Twitter post, https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/350753146445893633 (2015-03-03)
2010s
“You are not happy because of your location, but because of your mindset.”
Epilogue (p. 687)
The Dragon in the Sword (1986)