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Astrophysicist Inspirational Quotes (1621)

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We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.
Sean M. Carroll
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All my adult life people have been helping me.
Stephen Hawking
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When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of A Brief History of Time, by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing.
Stephen Hawking
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Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.
Carl Sagan
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Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.
Carl Sagan
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Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer
Brian May
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If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.
Stephen Hawking
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I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange it is just that one rarely meets them.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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God abhors a naked singularity.
Stephen Hawking
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The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
Stephen Hawking
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In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.
Martin Ryle
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There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.
Max Tegmark
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I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.
Carl Sagan
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go
Carl Sagan
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If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
Carl Sagan
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We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe
Stephen Hawking
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I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.
Carl Sagan
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The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.
Fred Hoyle
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What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.
Carl Sagan
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