Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don’t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He’ll use his word, and if I understand it, I’ll say, “Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Fall, Mean

• Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Math, Mind Blowing, Cosmos

  Twitter post from Nov 21, 2011

• So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube. To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die (e.g., homicide, suicide, electrocution, suffocation, starvation) we add the term spaghettification.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Suicide, Fall, Science

• We still refer to sunrise, sunset. That only has meaning if you think that Earth is in the center of things, and everything is moving around us. So even though we know intellectually Earth goes around the sun, the language is still pre-Copernican, as we would call it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moving, Sunset, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a librettist for Broadway musicals.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Writing, Perfect, Ears

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