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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.

When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Space, Trying, Looks
Source: www.cbsnews.com

There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dog, Stars, Dna

Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Spiritual, Views, Theory Of Evolution

Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Intelligent, Earth, Aliens
"Neil DeGrasse Tyson: ‘We Don’t Know What’s Driving 96% Of The Universe’". Interview with Cara Santa Maria, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Cosmos, Evidence

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Math, Mind Blowing, Cosmos
Twitter post from Nov 21, 2011

In just one year, the expenditure of of the U.S.'s military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Running, Military, Years

Photography is a form of time travel.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Photography, Time Travel, Form

My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don't have to tell a child to explore the backyard.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Children, Goal, Curiosity
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Earth, Planets, Turns

Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Atheist, Writing, Bad Ass
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.361, W. W. Norton & Company

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Animal, Intelligent, Thinking
Interview with Peter Tyson, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2004.

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Reality, Imagination, Cosmos

Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nations
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2012). “Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier”, p.233, W. W. Norton & Company

When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mind, Statistics, Coincidence
Twitter post from Jul 29, 2014

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Technology, Bad Ass, Modern Life
"What's The Next Big Thing?". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. February 23, 2011.

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me I got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. That's when we're going to fight... There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher 'that might not necessarily be true.' That's never happened. There are no scientists picketing out front of churches. There's been this coexistence forever, so to have religious communities knocking down the science door, there's something wrong there.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious, Fear, Teaching
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Religious, Teaching, School
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Atheist, Golf, Player

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Should Have, Mind, Should

There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows... You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself, is there a wild counterpart to this? If there is, it's not as large, it's not as sweet, it's not as juicy, and it has way more seeds in it. We have systematically genetically modified all the foods, the vegetables and animals that we have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It's called artificial selection.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Sweet, Animal, Vegetables
"Neil deGrasse Tyson Tells GMO Critics to 'Chill Out'". Interview with Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. July 30, 2014.

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Teacher, Bad Ass, People
"A Teacher, a Student and a Church-State Dispute". Letter to the New York Times, query.nytimes.com. December 21, 2006.

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ignorance, Knowing, Mind Blowing
Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.38, Prometheus Books

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Reading, Writing, Empathy

I've accomplished enough in life so that I do not fear death.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Enough, Fear Of Death, Accomplished
"I am Neil deGrasse Tyson - AMA". Reddit.com, November 13, 2011.

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