"I look up at the night sky, and……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars."
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375 Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson has 375 quotes on this site.
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love,…
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans…
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The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't…
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After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are…
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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…
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I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't…
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'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the…
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Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
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I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto'…
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In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet,…
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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers.…
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How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state…
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Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of…
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In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics…
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Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!
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If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that…
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By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude…
— Jonathan Sarfati
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Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past,…
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In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially…
— Philippe Starck
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At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or…
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General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and…
— Paul Davies
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present…
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