It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
“People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and… — 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. — Hannes Alfven 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
“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
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
“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
“Earth has also tidally locked the Moon, leaving it with identical periods of rotation on its axis and revolution around Earth. Wherever… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Shortly before, during, and after the strong and electroweak forces parted company, the universe was a seething soup of quarks, leptons, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“When I worked in astronomy, I routinely observed young college and university students working with liquid nitrogen and breathing nitrogen gas as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Industrial liquid gas containers were left open and venting gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy. On reflection, I realized… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Filling out the entire electromagnetic spectrum, in order of low-energy and low-frequency to high-energy and high-frequency, we have: radio waves, micro waves,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings… — Anonymous 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
“There's a variation of the ever popular multiverse idea in which the multiple universes that comprise it are not separate universes entirely,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am)… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“When the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) found out that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were going to visit the site… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Using freshman level calculus you can show that the one and only shape that has the smallest surface area for an enclosed… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“So, whether the aliens explore with chemistry or with radio waves, they might come to the same conclusion: a planet where there’s… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, there was physics. "Physics" describes how matter, energy, space, and time behave and interact with one another. The interplay… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Innumerable conditions must be exquisitely optimized for the support of humanity and of civilization. Many of them are highly time variable. Evidence… — Anonymous 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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 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
“Far from disproving the existence of God, astronomers may be finding more circumstantial evidence that God exists.” — Robert Jastrow 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
“During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The leptons most familiar to the non-physicist are the electron and perhaps the neutrino; and the most familiar quarks are . .… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
