"If the purpose of the universe was to……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it."
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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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On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an…
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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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More Cosmos Quotes
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Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up…
— Roseanne Barr
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his…
— Alfred Adler
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The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our…
— Carl Sagan
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My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man…
— Benjamin De Casseres
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When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything…
— Nhat Hanh
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What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony…
— Albert Einstein
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Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating…
— Camille Paglia
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Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to…
— Deepak Chopra
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The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
— Poul Anderson
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