"I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEAR...
Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson ~
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Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination
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"I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that...
"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surpr...
"The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light ele...
"If everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionary and brilliant. … If you got to spend every ...
"Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe ...
"I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, ca...
"I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.
"The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to...
"The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.
"My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
"There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment i...
"What we do know, and what we can assert without further hesitation, is that he universe had a beginning. The universe continues to evolve. And yes, ev...
"You could also ask who’s in charge. Lots of people think, well, we’re humans; we’re the most intelligent and accomplished species; we’re in charge. Ba...