Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
How much would you pay…for the Universe?
I’d like – inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.
The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.
Not only are we in the universe, but the universe is also in us. I don’t know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.
We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out – and we have only just begun.
Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there’s any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
By the way, how much does NASA cost? It’s half a penny on a dollar. Did you know that? … The most powerful agency on the dreams of a nation is currently underfunded to do what it needs to be doing, and that’s making dreams come true … How much would you pay for the universe?
Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians… They’re the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economics… issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.
Companies want to innovate. Companies that don’t innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the financial stability of a nation is what needs to established.
I’ve known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, ‘Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?’ I would say, ‘Astrophysicist .’ And then they’d walk away really quickly.
We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
When I reach to the edge of the universe, I do so knowing that along some paths of cosmic discovery, there are times when, at least for now, one must be content to love the questions themselves.
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
The universe’s destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.
If an artist is reaching for the universe as a source of creative muse, then I’m there. I’m gonna say, Yeah. Here’s Saturn. Here’s a black hole. Here’s twisted space-time. Talk to me. What do you need? What do you want? And I’ll just feed you because I think only then does science become mainstream – when science becomes a legitimate topic for artists.
We are stardust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, requiring a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.
Everything we do understand about the universe – the periodic table of elements, Einstein’s laws, Newton’s laws, all of chemistry, all of biology – that’s 4 percent of the universe. We got to the moon on the 4 percent we do understand. We landed on Mars on the 4 percent we do understand. So the day we crack the nut of the rest of that 95 percent… Oh my gosh.
Every account of a higher power that I’ve seen described, of all religions that I’ve seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of that power. When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.
The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars. These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
I [do not know] when the end of science will come. … What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.
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 nature of the universe from the statements and philosophies contained in religious writings…. Had any of these efforts worked, science and religion today might be one and the same. But they are not.
If the cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn’t then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?
I have found that when calculating what no one has calculated before, like my observing sessions on the mountain, my mental acuity peaks. Ironically, these are the times that I would flunk the reality check normally reserved for mental patients and dazed boxers: What is your name? What day is it? Who is the president of the United States?… I do not know, and I do not care. I am at peace with my equations as I connect to the cosmic engines that drive our universe.
I love the smell of the universe in the morning.
If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. … I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.
Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone…all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as the ever-cooling background. At that time, space travel will no longer provide refuge because even Hell will have frozen over. We may then declare that the universe has died-not with a bang, but with a whimper.
After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?
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Motivational Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
Like, literally, I don’t want you, imaginary friend, telling me who I can and cannot marry.
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. 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 surprised how far that gets you.
If aliens did visit us, I’d be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes on Technology
When you visit countries that don’t nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel the absence of hope…people are reduced to worrying only about that day’s shelter or the next day’s meal. It’s a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorrow.
Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers – poets, actors, journalists – they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don’t fight science and they don’t fight technology.
All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by innovations in science and technology.
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 all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes on Religion
UFO ( Unidentified Flying Object ) sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they’re lower. You say, Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.
Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
If you were certain there was a GOD you wouldn’t have to call it FAITH
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there’s any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes on Politics
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.
George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is the God who named the stars. The problem is: two-thirds of all stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don’t think he knew this. That would confound the point that he was making.
Short Life Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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 suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
Where there’s water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it’s bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I’m doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world – the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
Inspirational Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.
Want to lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.
If aliens did visit us, I’d be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you
Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes on Science
Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.
We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.
I [do not know] when the end of science will come. … What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes about The Universe
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.
We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance, it’s a speck. And I’m convinced that if everyone had a cosmic perspective you wouldn’t have legions of armies waging war on other people because someone would say, “Stop, look at the universe.”
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you
Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes Cosmos
“There are many millions of living species of animals and plants, most of them still unknown to science. Think of that — we have yet to make contact with most of the forms of terrestrial life.”
“Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it was merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.”
“Nobody knows how life got started. Most of the evidence from that time was destroyed by impact and erosion. Science works on the frontier of knowledge and ignorance. We’re not afraid to admit what we don’t know. There’s no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers. Maybe someone watching this will be the first to solve the mystery of how life on Earth began.”
“There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes on Alien Life
I don’t see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.
If aliens did visit us, I’d be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.
“Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.”
“It’s about husbands and wives, sons and daughters and grandparents. There’s very strong relationship-building
in this film, and they’re all scientists. It’s evidence that somebody recognizes that scientists are people, too.”
Funny Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
Who would ever have guessed that, as a society, we cared so much about a frozen rock that is 7.5 billion kilometers away?
Does it disturb anyone else that “The Los Angeles Angels” baseball team translates directly to “The The Angels Angels”?
