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Quotes from Astrophysics for People in a Hurry — Neil deGrasse Tyson

born 1958 United States

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This universality of physical laws drives scientific discovery like nothing else.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017)

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017)

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)

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)

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)

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)

When I pore over the data that establish the mysterious presence of dark matter and dark energy throughout the universe, sometimes I forget that every day—every twenty-four-hour rotation of Earth—people kill and get killed in the name of someone else’s conception of God, and that some people who do not kill in the name of God, kill in the name of needs or wants of political dogma.

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Neil deGrasse Tyson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.