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Astrophysicist Inspirational Quotes (1621)

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There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.
Carl Sagan
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Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
Arthur Eddington
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Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly self-critical. Science is a collective enterprise with the error-correction machinery often running smoothly.
Carl Sagan
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Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.
Carl Sagan
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It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen Hawking
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The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance.
Fred Hoyle
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Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.
Stephen Hawking
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It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
Alan Lightman
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We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history. But I'm an optimist.
Stephen Hawking
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For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
Carl Sagan
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Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.
Stephen Hawking
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The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
Sally Ride
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Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.
Alan Lightman
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There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.
John D. Barrow
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
Sally Ride
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In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.
David Brin
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We are, in the most profound sense, children of the Cosmos.
Carl Sagan
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