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Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.
Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger (2009)
This universality of physical laws drives scientific discovery like nothing else.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017)
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017)
The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.
The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017)
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out — and we have only just begun.
Cosmologists have plenty of ego. How could you not when your job is to deduce what brought the universe into existence?
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017)
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.
In our own solar system, for example, everything that is not the Sun adds up to less than one fifth of one percent of the Sun’s mass.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017)
Words that make questions may not be questions at all.
All I can say is, the universe is in a good shape, it's earth that has all the problems.
Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhere in the universe. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017)
Yes, the universe had a beginning. Yes, the universe continues to evolve.
What is NASA's mission? Is it to beat the russians? Is it to inspire?
That makes me want to grab people on the street and say, "have you heard this?"
You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
It's the inspired student that continues to learn on their own. That's what separates the real achievers in the world from those who pedal along, finishing assignments.
Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger (2009)