Neil Degrasse Tyson Cosmos Quotes

#1. If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if everybody thinks about tomorrow, then someday we can visit the sky together.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard - explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving of acts morally equivalent to the bombing in Oklahoma City.

Timothy McVeigh

#5. 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.

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#6. I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: 'Have you HEARD THIS?

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#7. A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.

Jeffrey Fry

#8. Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. Just like the gentle shake we use to wake someone up, we can stimulate our belongings by physically moving them, exposing them to fresh air and making them "conscious.

Marie Kondo

#10. I explore the mind of souls in stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God's orders.

Billy Graham

#12. The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

Ralph Ellison

#13. Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam ... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

David Brin

#14. 'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People, when they watch TV in the evening, want to see stories, and science simply tells the best stories.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#15. Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

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#16. The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

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#17. Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

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#18. Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#19. The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself.

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#20. What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos.
Have a nice day.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#21. Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

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#22. Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.
No judgment implied. Just an observation.

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#23. To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#24. The fats dented the flats.

Jerry Lawler

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

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#26. Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today.

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#27. ... and I submit to you, that science, scientific discovery, especially cosmic discovery, does not become mainstream until the artist embraces the fruits of those discoveries.

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#28. We embark on this quest not from a simple desire, but from a mandate of our species to search for our place in the cosmos. The quest is old, not new. And has garnered the attention of thinkers great and small, across time and across culture. What we have discovered, the poets have known all along.

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#29. The telescope ... is a conduit to the cosmos.

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#30. And the cosmos ends. Not with a bang but with a whimper.

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#31. Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.

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#32. 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.

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#33. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.

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#34. Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

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#35. Geography is the study of earth as the home of people

Yi-Fu Tuan

#36. You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth.

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#37. Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.

Marcus Aurelius