Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics. — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Far from disproving the existence of God, astronomers may be finding more circumstantial evidence that God exists.” — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Dark matter is a mysterious substance that has gravity but does not interact with light in any known way.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but… — Piers Corbyn Copy Share Image
We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced results,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“While most branches of science have ascended in this era, the field of astrophysics persistently rises to the top. I think I… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals. [Referring to the… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies,… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
“Like the microscopic strands of DNA that predetermine the identity of a macroscopic species and the unique propertires of its members, the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
“Spheres are indeed fertile theoretical tools that help us gain insight into all manner of astrophysical problems. But one should not be… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
“Since only a narrow range of the allowed values for, say, the fine structure constant will permit observers to exist in the… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When Newton breached this philosophical barrier by rendering all motion comprehensible and predictable, some theologians criticized him for leaving nothing for the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“This fits in with what I saw in staff in astronomical facilities and was reporting to the management team: 10-14% Oxygen: Emotional… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest lies that is currently being told in the USA workplace is on the legally required OSHA poster: All… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“During the quark–lepton era the universe was dense enough for the average separation between unattached quarks to rival the separation between attached… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The one we call Earth formed in a kind of Goldilocks zone around the Sun, where oceans remain largely in liquid form.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There’s no doubt about it: more varieties of carbon-based molecules exist than all other kinds of molecules combined.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image