Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes — Page 24

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Sad

“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not because we lacked the brain power to protect ourselves but because we lacked the foresight. The dominant species that replaces us in post-apocalyptic Earth just might wonder, as they gaze upon our mounted skeletons in their natural history museums, why large headed Homo sapiens fared no better than the proverbially peabrained dinosaurs.”

Moon Museums Skeletons

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist, Science Communicator

Hopeful

“It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in the majesty of the cosmos. I use words, compose sentences that sound like the sentences I hear out of people that had revelation of Jesus, who go on their pilgrimages to Mecca.”

Stars Jesus Dust

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Philosophical

“One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.”

Ideas Should

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Grateful

“It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children”

Children Stars

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Philosophical

“The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don’t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He’ll use his word, and if I understand it, I’ll say, “Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?”

Mean Fall Stars

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Philosophical

“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."”

War Distance Army

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Hopeful

“The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.”

World Character Bangs

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Funny

“If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?”

Ifs Moon Jupiter

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Confident

“You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths”

Needs Age Objective Truth

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Philosophical

“... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.”

People Believe Ignorance

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Spiritual

“Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don't know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.”

Spiritual Religious Science

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Courageous

“This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.”

War Strong Wall

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