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Astrophysicist Inspirational Quotes (1621)

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Who will observe the observers?
Arthur Eddington
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A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult to decode, would tell us that the concepts of logic and physics are not limited to the hardware in human skulls, and will transform our view of the universe.
Martin Rees
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As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
Alan Lightman
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In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?
Carl Sagan
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
Alan Lightman
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The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.
Stephen Hawking
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The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.
Carl Sagan
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
Carl Sagan
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I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made to the head of his department at Caltech.]
Fritz Zwicky
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Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
Edwin Powell Hubble
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Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.
Stephen Hawking
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For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I think they give a correct impression.
Arthur Eddington
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Without science, everything is a miracle.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
Sally Ride
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Physics as we know it will be over in six months - Max Born
Stephen Hawking
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It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.
Stephen Hawking
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The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.
Sean M. Carroll
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Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.
James Hansen
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