Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moving, Ignorance, Mean

  "The Moon, the Tides and why Neil DeGrasse Tyson is Colbert's God". "The Science Studio" with Roger Bingham, January 20, 2011.

• They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Lonely, Religious, Science

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.353, W. W. Norton & Company

• The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wine, Past, Years

• The past is another planet.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Past, Religion

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ Ninth Episode: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth". Documentary, May 4, 2014.

• Many people are unhappy because there was some point in their past where there was some glory day, and as they get older they're not creating more glory days. They reflect on a time that they will never reach again, and it brings some level of dissatisfaction into their lives. I have circumvented that by simply making incumbent upon myself to always be productive in ways that are consistent with my physical body, my mental state of knowledge, but more important, my presumed growth in wisdom that would come with age.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Past, People, Growth

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Like no other science, astrophysics cross-pollinate s the expertise of chemists, biologists, geologists and physicists, all to discover the past, present, and future of the cosmos-and our humble place within it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Humble, Science, Past

• New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder, we will forever uncover the secrets of the universe - one by one.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Past, Sight, Discovery

• You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Past, Forever, Facts

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Past, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Past, Origin Of Life, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

• This past year, we received our second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Series. While we'd all like to win, I can say with utmost sincerity that it mattered more to me that we got noticed than whether or not we win.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Winning, Past, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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