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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? 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
Nice, Journey, Lessons To Be Learned
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.47, W. W. Norton & Company

I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Risk, Proud, Boundaries
Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.72, Prometheus Books

Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars
Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mind Blowing, Creepy, Haunting
Twitter post from Oct 30, 2011

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Children, Long Ago, Age
Twitter post from Dec 25, 2014

You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Past, Forever, Facts
Source: abcnews.go.com

If the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Humility, Cosmos, Purpose

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Inspirational, Dream, Science
Twitter post from Aug 04, 2012

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Kids, Stuff, Exploration
"Neil deGrasse Tyson On Literacy, Curiosity, Education, And Being 'In Your Face'". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. February 25, 2010.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ignorance, Vaccines, World

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Discovery
Interview with Rebecca Boyle, www.popsci.com. February 27, 2012.

The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Teacher, Art, Bad Ass
"Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

The universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we’ve got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it’s one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it’s countless other universes.

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

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thinking, Years, Would Be

Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Teacher, Memories, Names
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Mean, Cat, Vets
"Gravitational Anarchy". WNYC Radio Podcast, November 29, 2010.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Moon, Space, Community

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.

As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves.

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

I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?"

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Believe, Global Warming, Climate Change
Twitter post from Jul 31, 2012

No one is dumb who is curious.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dumb, Curious
Interview with Jim Clash, uk.askmen.com.

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Photography, Week, Okay
Twitter post from Nov 28, 2014

My only hope is that every other alien civilization isn't doing exactly what we are doing because then everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Intelligent, Civilization, Listening

It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children

Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stars, Children, Sun

NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers. We went to the moon because we were at war with the Soviet Union. And so when it became clear that they (Soviet Union) were not going to the moon, we're done with the moon.

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

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