Physics Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

65 Physics quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Quantum particles flicker constantly, appearing and disappearing in a restless dance. One quote says math lets us talk with the cosmos by using equations. Another reminds us that the universe lives inside us as much as we live inside it.

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I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

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“If the universe is anything, it should be fun.”

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This universe knows about me and my crops.

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“In the beginning, there was physics.”

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“after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”

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“The universe is knowable...”

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We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

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We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

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Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

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“The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them”

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“opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would.”

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“The universe is knowable and what one need not apeal to mystical, magical forces to account for things”

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I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

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“We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us. That”

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“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT”

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Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens…

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“Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is…

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Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are,…

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There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

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Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no…

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“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. —EDWIN P. HUBBLE (1889–1953), The Nature…

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I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of…

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If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe,…

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I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other…

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We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most…

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When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person…

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“In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay…

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Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of…

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Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch…

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Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that…

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“Using freshman level calculus you can show that the one and only shape that has the smallest surface area for an enclosed…

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There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the…

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“Newton's laws specifically state that, while the gravity of a planet gets weaker and weaker the farthest from it you travel, there…

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“There's a variation of the ever popular multiverse idea in which the multiple universes that comprise it are not separate universes entirely,…

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“Only three of the naturally occurring elements were manufactured in the big bang. The rest were forged in the high-temperature hearts and…

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“At the end of the day, no matter how confident we are in our observations, our experiments, our data, or our theories,…

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In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up.

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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

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“You can picture the universe as an enormous loaf of raisin bread rising in the oven”

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