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Astrophysicist Inspirational Quotes (1621)

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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.
Hubert Reeves
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I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
Stephen Hawking
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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan
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That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
Alan Lightman
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The chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply, at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.
Robert Jastrow
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
Alan Lightman
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You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.
Stephen Hawking
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Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.
Carl Sagan
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When an investigator has developed a formula which gives a complete representation of the phenomena within a certain range, he may be prone to satisfaction. Would it not be wiser if he should say 'Foiled again! I can find out no more about Nature along this line.'
Arthur Eddington
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Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that if they just have everybody learning what is, they're not going to be in a position to invent a tomorrow because their brain isn't even wired to go in that direction.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.
Stephen Hawking
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Is there intelligent life on Earth?
Frank Drake
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Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
Carl Sagan
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Only in the last few years did the science crystallize, revealing the urgency - our planet really is in peril. If we do not change course soon, we will hand our children a situation that is out of their control.
James Hansen
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Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Don't believe the results of experiments until they're confirmed by theory.
Arthur Eddington
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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
Sally Ride
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If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.
Carl Sagan
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It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our existence as a blip on the intelligence radar. They could be so advanced that we are to them what worms are to us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times...
George Ellery Hale
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Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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