You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective shows Earth to be a mote. But it’s a precious mote and, for the moment, it’s the only home… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brain spill out, making… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective is humble. The cosmic perspective is spiritual—even redemptive—but not religious. The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The cosmic perspective comes from the frontiers of science, yet it is not solely the provenance of the scientist. It belongs to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“We have one collective hope: the Earth And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless, famine and calamity abound Sufferers hurl themselves into the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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