"If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about……" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
"If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize."
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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 Astrophysics Quotes
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How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state…
— Steven Weinberg
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Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of…
— Hannes Alfven
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My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant…
— Bill Bryson
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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…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!
— Nick Cannon
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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…
— Chelsea Clinton
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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…
— Hannes Alfven
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I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state…
— Piers Corbyn
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