Happens Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson lifts everyday occurrences into the stars, offering a blend of humor and astrophysical insight. Sixteen quotes provide a fresh lens for anyone curious about the universe’s role in our daily dramas.

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Let's invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let's invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation…

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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

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We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that…

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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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In astrophysics, we care about how matter, motion and energy manifest in objects and phenomenon in the universe. Stars are born. They…

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Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on…

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And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a…

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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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In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new…

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In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the…

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That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic…

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I grew up in New York City where there is no night sky. Nobody has a relationship with the sky, because, particularly…

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I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught…

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When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen.…

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When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate.…

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Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is…

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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…

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The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.

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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

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If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.

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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…

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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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…

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They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,…

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