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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tools, Way, Happens

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Gravity, Percent, Knows
Source: www.npr.org

I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mean, Cameras, Pages
"Q&a: Neil Degrasse Tyson Talks 'Cosmos,' Dark Energy and Seth Macfarlane". Fox Conference Call Interview, gazette.com. March 05, 2014.

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Math, Years, Novelists
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, “And the geek shall inherit the Earth.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Earth, Geek, Meek

The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Attitude, Kids, Agency
Source: www.avclub.com

The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars, Years, Molecules

Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Physics, Quantum, Fluctuation
"Neil deGrasse Tyson Talks God, Aliens, And Multiverses". Interview With David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2015.

I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Fear, Atheism, Classroom
Twitter post from Apr 30, 2013

Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars, Clouds, Crucible

After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Cherish, Universe
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nice, Years, Mind Blowing

You say you're worried about kids? I'm not worried about kids, I'm worried about grown ups... Children are not the problem here... We spend the first year of their lives teaching them how to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Children, Teaching, Kids

I don't want people to say, 'Something is true because Tyson says it is true.' That's not critical thinking.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thinking, People, Want

Here's the problem, when you're stargazing on a mountain top you are partially oxygen-deprived and you're in command of million dollars worth of hardware. So as much as I would like to sip wine under the stars, it's contraindicated in the instructions on operating telescopes.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars, Wine, Oxygen

Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Memories, Identity, Doe
Source: www.pbs.org

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Children, Thinking, Parent

When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Expectations, Would Be, Overcoming
Source: www.cbsnews.com

I was raised Catholic. But if someone says I was raised in some religion, that's insufficient information to actually know what was going on. The real question is Was the religion in the household? The answer is no. Important decisions in the household were executed rationally and secularly. So as a result, the foundations of my reasoning derive not from religion but from the rational analysis of circumstances.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Real, Decision, Catholic
Source: www.esquire.com

Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink-or never arise at all-and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered each other because of them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Views, Differences, Perspective
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2017). “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Pie, Half, Size
Twitter post from Jan 25, 2012

Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Earth, Matter, Aliens

The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
School, People, Way
"Neil deGrasse Tyson on Science Literacy (Part Two)". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. January 24, 2014.

'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Bad Ass, Two, Space

If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science, Normal, Rooms

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