Dark Matter Quotes

• You're entitled to say, if you're so smart, why don't you tell me what that dark matter is? And I'll have to confess I don't know.

  Jim Peebles

  Smart, Dark, Matter

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

  Matt Haig

  Dark, Light, Mind

  Matt Haig (2013). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Law, Matter

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

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• You know, dark matter matters.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Matter, Knows

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• Dark matter is everywhere. In this room. Everywhere.

  Fabiola Gianotti

  Dark, Rooms, Matter

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Should Have, Matter

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dark, Watches, Matter

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• However, one new theory says that dark matter may be ordinary matter in a parallel universe. If a galaxy is hovering above in another dimension, we would not be able to see it. It would be invisible, yet we would feel its gravity. Hence, it might explain dark matter.

  Michio Kaku

  Dark, Ordinary, Would Be

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• The best theory comes from string theory, which states that dark matter is nothing but a higher vibration of the string. We are, in some sense, the lowest octave of a vibrating string.

  Michio Kaku

  Dark, Matter, Vibrations

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• The Hubbell space telescope, it's first year up after they fixed it, categorized and counted 500 billion galaxies in any one photograph field of view of dark matter. That's like grains of sand at the beach and you've just got a handful. It's massive amounts. I'm sure that of all of the galaxies, and I'm sure the universe is teeming with life.

  Alex Jones

  Beach, Dark, Views

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments.

  Graham Hancock

  Dark, Dmt, May

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• A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary.

  Lorrie Moore

  Dark, Pages Turning, Scary

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• [Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

  E. O. Wilson

  Dark, World, Matter

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• I hope we find evidence of dark matter in the lab and in outer space. This would go a long way to proving the correctness of string theory, which is what I do for a living. That is my day job. So string theory is a potentially experimentally verifiable theory.

  Michio Kaku

  Jobs, Dark, Space

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. Theres whole swathes of stuff we cant account for.

  Talulah Riley

  Dark, Interesting, Matter

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• Avice for a human. 87. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile. 88. Which is to say: don't kill yourself. Even when the darkness is total. Always know that life is not still. Time is space. You are moving through that galaxy. Wait for the stars.

  Matt Haig

  Stars, Moving, Dark

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• Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Motivation, Inspiration, Dark

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• Maybe dark matter is denser than we usually assume, kind of like the Milky Way plane.

  Lisa Randall

  Dark, Matter, Way

  "Not My Job: Physics Professor Lisa Randall Gets Quizzed On Phys Ed". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

  Lisa Randall

  Dark, Thinking, Dinosaurs

  "Not My Job: Physics Professor Lisa Randall Gets Quizzed On Phys Ed". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• Look at what's happening with scientific things. They have discovered dark matter. They have discovered what is called the God Particle. All that is going to make religion obsolete. These are the things that are amazing, and it's an amazing time to be living in. It's a higher energy that we're going to be coming into.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Dark, Energy, Looks

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 23, 2012.

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• You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.

  Larry Wilmore

  Dark, Energy, Goes On

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know, there's black holes and what - could there be wormholes? Could - might there be a multi-verse? These are all fascinating frontiers. What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy? And what was around before the universe? And do we have access to higher dimensions?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Black, Energy

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Cosmos Expert Neil deGrasse Tyson On Cosmetology". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 24, 2015.

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• Right now people think God is dark energy and dark matter, the spirit. Go ahead and think that, but the day we can tell you exactly what it is - that it's gremlins in the vacuum of space or whatever - then what's your recourse at that point?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jobs, Fun, Book

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