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Mind Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching…
- The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.
- Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
- With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos.
- Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria…
- If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
- Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.It could be…
- Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
- Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.
- Some air you inhale was exhaled by Cleopatra.
- Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not…
- Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.
- Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven…
- In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day
- One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new…
- I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem…
- When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
- ... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing…
- I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's…
- Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
- Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the…
- As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by…
- Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live,…
- Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought…
- Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle