Astrophysics Quotes

• I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Morning, Smell, Simple Life

  Twitter post from Apr 05, 2013

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• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

  Carl Sagan

  Positive, Hope, Educational

  Nobel Award Ceremony Speech by Professor Olga Botner, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2017.

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• 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

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• I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up — many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Night, Sky

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the most astounding fact in the universe" by Elizabeth Flock, www.washingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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  We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Nature, Important, Atoms

  "The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe, As Told By Neil DeGrasse Tyson", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

  Michio Kaku

  Atoms, Made, Physicist

  "How the Universe Works". www.imdb.com. 2010-.

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• I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

  Hannes Alfven

  Way, Physics, Should

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• In whatever you choose to do, do it because it's hard, not because it's easy. Math and physics and astrophysics are hard. For every hard thing you accomplish, fewer other people are out there doing the same thing as you. That's what doing something hard means. And in the limit of this, everyone beats a path to your door because you're the only one around who understands the impossible concept or who solves the unsolvable problem.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mean, Math, Doors

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• We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stupidity, Greed, Danger

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• If the Sun exploded, we wouldn't know about it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Light and gravity take that long to reach us. Then we would vaporize.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Long, Sun

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• The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Law, Opinion

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• We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.

  Michio Kaku

  New Horizons, Physics, Ends

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• Trying to save a hater is like trying to teach astrophysics to a wino!

  Nick Cannon

  Trying, Winos, Teach

  Nick Cannon‏ @NickCannon, twitter.com. August 01, 2009.

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• What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Believe, Two, Sound

  "Cosmos/ Encyclopaedia Galactica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Bigs, Night Sky

  "The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe, As Told By Neil DeGrasse Tyson", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2012.

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• If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.

  John Green

  Stars, Hero, Journey

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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• I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

  Lloyd Alexander

  Art, Imagination, What If

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Telegram to prominent Americans, 24 May 1946

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• 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.

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• I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dream, Truth, Thinking

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2015

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• Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Funny, Eggs, Bird

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2013

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• How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute to the essential objectivity of modern astrophysics that this consensus has been brought about, not by shifts in philosophical preference or by the influence of astrophysical mandarins, but by the pressure of empirical data.

  Steven Weinberg

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Time Keeping, Turns

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

  Hannes Alfven

  Science, Ideas, Conflict

  "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 197, 1998.

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• I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Trying, Taught, Chemistry

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