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More Quotes by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."
In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
