Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Beauty, Energy, Molecules

• Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Spiritual, Views, Theory Of Evolution

• We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Earth, Make Me Smile, Ends

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Clouds, Crucible

• The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Years, Molecules

• I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Energy, Body, Earth

• You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Age, Needs, Objective Truth

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2013

• There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth might end on December 21, 2012. It's a profound absence of awareness of the laws of physics and how nature works. So they're missing some science classes in their training in high school or in college that would empower them to understand and to judge when someone else is basically just full of it. Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Educational, Believe, School

• I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, Adventure, Animal

• Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Animal, Empathy, Feelings

• I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Earth, Examination

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Aliens Might Find Humans Too Stupid To Contact" By Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.

• Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Long, Environmental, Mars

• While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only is Earth not in the center of the solar system, but the solar system is not in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is not in the center of the universe, and it may come to pass that our universe is just one of many that comprise a multiverse. And in case you're one of those people who thinks that the edge may be a special place, we are not at the edge of anything either.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Thinking, Guarantees That

• Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Bad Ass, Modern Life

  "What's The Next Big Thing?". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. February 23, 2011.

• On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Friday, Communication, Bad Ass

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

• When asked about which scientist he'd like to meet, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, "Isaac Newton. No question about it. The smartest person ever to walk the face of this earth. The man was connected to the universe in spooky ways. He discovered the laws of motion, the laws of gravity, the laws of optics. Then he turned 26.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Men, Law, Earth

• When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Jupiter, Earth

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2014

• Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent. But in the eyes of an alien coming here who has the technology to make it here, they might observe us and conclude that there's no sign of intelligent life on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Eye, Intelligent, Technology

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'". "Here and Now" with Jeremy Hobson, kuow.org. March 6, 2014.

• I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Should Have, Earth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Earth, Planets, Turns

• In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Nice, Years, Mind Blowing

• Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Earth, Aliens

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson: ‘We Don’t Know What’s Driving 96% Of The Universe’". Interview with Cara Santa Maria, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

• The universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we’ve got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it’s one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it’s countless other universes.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Night, Sky, Special

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview with David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

• But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling upward of twenty miles per second, required a fraction of a second. No offense to Grand Canyon lovers, but for my money, Meteor Crater is the most amazing natural landmark in the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Twenties, World

• We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance, it's a speck. And I'm convinced that if everyone had a cosmic perspective you wouldn't have legions of armies waging war on other people because someone would say, "Stop, look at the universe."

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  War, Distance, Army

  "Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's one-man mission". "60 minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 22, 2015.

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