Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Beauty, Energy, Molecules

• I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Intellectual, Watches

  "The Perimeter of Ignorance". www.haydenplanetarium.org. November 01, 2005.

• I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Energy, Body, Earth

• I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, Adventure, Animal

• Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Cosmos, Might, Energy

• In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.

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  Dark, Law, Matter

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

• If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ocean, Air, Atmosphere

• 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.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Energy

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2011

• UV is bad for molecules because its high energy breaks the bonds between a molecule's constituent atoms. That's why UV is bad for you, too: it's always best to avoid things that decompose the molecules of your flesh.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Energy, Molecules

• The chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were so large, and were moving so fast, that each hit Jupiter with at least the equivalent energy of the dinosaur-killing collision between Earth and an asteroid 65 million years ago. Whatever damage Jupiter sustained, one thing is for sure: it's got no dinosaurs left.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moving, Years, Energy

• Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Twitter post from May 27, 2010

• In astrophysics, we care about how matter, motion and energy manifest in objects and phenomenon in the universe. Stars are born. They live out their lives. They die. Some of the ones that die explode. Our sun will not be one of those, but it will die. And it'll take Earth with us. So we make sure we have other destinations in mind when that happens. And I've got it on my calendar.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Mind, Energy

  "Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's one-man mission". "60 minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 22, 2015.

• There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one is, you're working hard up there. And the ones who say I'm working hard are teachers, they're the educators; they're the people who are the performers. It's a huge investment of my psycho-emotional energy to pull that off and to make it look smooth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Emotional, Two

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

• A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing.

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  Mean, Energy, Negative

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

• There are two ways you can receive energy from your environment: One is molecules bumping against you. That's the air. The other is radiative energy. That's what you're feeling from the sun. When they say "Get out of the sun, out of the heat," the air is the same temperature; it's just you're exposed to sunlight.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Feelings, Energy, Environment

  Source: www.esquire.com

• We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Should Have, Matter

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

• You know, there's black holes and what - could there be wormholes? Could - might there be a multi-verse? These are all fascinating frontiers. What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy? And what was around before the universe? And do we have access to higher dimensions?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Black, Energy

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Cosmos Expert Neil deGrasse Tyson On Cosmetology". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 24, 2015.

• If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Communication, Bad Day, Energy

  "Cosmic Coincidence: Asteroid Careens by as Meteor Delivers ‘Buzz Cut’ to Earth". www.pbs.org. February 15, 2013.

• A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years. It releases as much energy in an instant as our sun will produce over its 10-billion-year lifetime.

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  Powerful, Light, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Right now people think God is dark energy and dark matter, the spirit. Go ahead and think that, but the day we can tell you exactly what it is - that it's gremlins in the vacuum of space or whatever - then what's your recourse at that point?

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  Dark, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion of the universe and giving birth to all the energy and all the matter we know today. I know that sounds crazy, but there’s strong observational evidence to support the Big Bang theory. And it includes the amount of helium in the cosmos and the glow of radio waves left over from the explosion.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Crazy, Space

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