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Astrophysicist Inspirational Quotes (1621)

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There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.
Stephen Hawking
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What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
Brian May
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Science is not perfect. It's often misused it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.
Carl Sagan
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Devastation could arise insidiously, rather than suddenly, through unsustainable pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. Indeed, these pressures are the prime 'threats without enemies' that confront us.
Martin Rees
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No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.
Stephen Hawking
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In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.
Martin Rees
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The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]
Carl Sagan
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The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.
Roger Penrose
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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
Sally Ride
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Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.
Claude Nicollier
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The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.
Carl Sagan
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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
Sally Ride
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The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.
Carl Sagan
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
Alan Lightman
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I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.
David Brin
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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.
Carl Sagan
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We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Who you are, where you've been and what you've done is all up here, captured and preserved in your memories. If you lost that - the story of your own origins - you'd lose your identity, your sense of self.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When I grew up I assembled my role models à la cart. I wanted to be an astrophysicist. If I tried to find a role model who grew up in the Bronx with my skin color who was an astrophysicist, I would never have become an astrophysicist.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You're entitled to say, if you're so smart, why don't you tell me what that dark matter is? And I'll have to confess I don't know.
Jim Peebles
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When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break.
Stephen Hawking
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
Sally Ride
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Science makes God unnecessary.
Stephen Hawking
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Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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