Neil deGrasse Tyson Philosophical Quotes

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Philosophical

“We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe - we call these singularities - Einstein's equations fail. In fact, people have joked that's where God is dividing by zero.”

People Black Zero

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Philosophical

“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.”

Civilization Dumb Aliens

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Philosophical

“The miniaturization of electronics, which ultimately was driven by the marketplace, was started by NASA, because it costs money to get something into orbit. So you want to trim your electronics, miniaturize your electronics, miniaturize your satellites.”

Cost Orbit Electronics

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Philosophical

“For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.”

Taken Brain Century

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Philosophical

“If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.”

Earth Form Mars

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Philosophical

“The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.”

Space Calendars Cosmic

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Philosophical

“We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth formed, but that's only because modern telescopes empower us to see other stars and planets freshly hatched within gas clouds across the galaxy. As for the origin of life itself, the transition from inanimate molecules to what any of us would call life remains one of the great frontiers of biology.”

Ideas Stars Moon

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Philosophical

“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.”

Writing Religious Philosophy

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Philosophical

“Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain you. And if you cherry-pick this fact, you are left thinking that earth is some haven for life, but 96, 97 percent of all species that ever lived on earth are now extinct from the actions of the earth itself and an occasional asteroid to stir the pot.”

Thinking Earth Action

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Philosophical

“Scientific truth is not what any one scientist puts forth. It can be that, but it is generally not. It is the sum of multiple studies that all lean in the same direction in their results conducted by different people at different times of different nationalities with different competitive urges who all end up getting the same result. Then you have an emerging scientific truth, and then you put that in the textbooks, and that will never be shown to be wrong later on.”

People Textbooks Different Nationalities

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Philosophical

“All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.”

Country America Attachment

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Philosophical

“It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right?”

Trying States Invoke

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Neil deGrasse Tyson — Philosophical Quotes

Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes