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
“Mount Everest is about as tall as a mountain on Earth can grow before the lower rock layers succumb to their own… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Quarks are quirky beasts. Unlike protons, each with an electric charge of +1, and electrons, with a charge of –1, quarks have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Astronomy staff that routinely discharged industrial gas into the indoor environment at high altitudes did not wear oxygen deficiency monitors or protective… — Steven Magee 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
“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
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
The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Anyone who has wrestled knows that it's the hardest thing in the world to do. Anyone who says something else is the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing… — Gemma Chan 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions.” — Steven Magee 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
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
“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
![“By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram A. Boornazian [mathematician with S. Ross and Co. in Boston] have found evidence that the sun has been contracting…” quote by Jonathan Sarfati](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffc/jonathan-sarfati-57366_analyzing_by-analyzing-data-from-greenwich-observa_2468812.png)
