Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson — Philosophical Quotes

342 quotes · Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Philosophical
“I grew up in New York City where there is no night sky. Nobody has a relationship with the sky, because, particularly in the day, there was air pollution and light pollution, and you look up, and your sight line terminates on buildings. You know the sun and maybe the moon, and that's about it. So what happens is that I am exposed to the night sky as you would see it from a mountaintop, and I'm just struck by it. Suppose I grew up on a farm where I had that sky every night of my life - then you're not going to be struck by it. It's just the wallpaper of your nighttime dome.”
Night New York Moon
Philosophical
“Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern astrophysics, and time became well understood going back billions of years. So enlightened religious people, as a necessity, had to shed the magical elements of the Bible. A little known fact is that Thomas Jefferson did just that. There's something called the Jefferson Bible. It's not widely publicized because it sort of conflicts with certain people's ideas of what the founding fathers were.”
Years Father Religious