It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.
Carl Sagan
I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
Stephen Hawking
"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
-Richard Dawkins
"I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy."
-Stephen Hawking
"Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion."
-Stephen Hawking
"Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known."
-Carl Sagan
"In every culture, the sky and the religious impulse are intertwined. I lie back in an open field and the sky surrounds me. I'm overpowered by its scale. It's so vast and so far away that my own insignificance becomes palpable. But I don't feel rejected by the sky. I'm a part of it - tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity. And when I concentrate in the stars, the planets, and their motions, I have an irresistible sense of machinery, clockwork, elegant precision working on a scale that, however lofty out aspirations, dwarfs and humbles us."
-Carl Sagan
“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”
-Stephen Hawking
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
"The loss of the night sky is most troubling for children. Whole generations of kids in cities and suburbs are growing up seldom if ever having seen the milky way and what a sky full of thousands of stars look like." -Timothy Harris, "The Creation of the Universe" and author of 10 best selling books on astronomy and the cosmos
"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
“When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.”
-Carl Sagan
"Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better."
-Bill Nye
"Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion."
-Neil deGrasse Tyson