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Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

Book Quotes

If one evening you feel sad enough to cry, look up. Your tears will not fall and the starry night may bring joy to your soul.

I long for a civilization to develop a level of science literacy, so that we can become better shepherds of our future on this planet.

That means some of the air you just breathed passed through the lungs of Napoleon, Beethoven, Lincoln, and Billy the Kid.

When did it become okay to be more offended by what someone with no power says than by what someone with power does?

Are we missing some basic pieces of the universe that once were? What part of the cosmic history book has been marked “access denied”? What remains absent from out theories and equations that ought to be there, leaving us groping for answers we may never find?

In our own solar system, for example, everything that is not the Sun adds up to less than one fifth of one percent of the Sun’s mass.

These early, single-celled organisms unwittingly transformed Earth’s carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into one with sufficient oxygen to allow aerobic organisms to emerge and dominate the oceans and land.

This leads me to ask how it came to be that Pluto is Mickey’s dog, but Mickey is not Pluto’s mouse. Something is awry in the taxonomic class of mammals in the Disney universe. I.

You could, in principle, perform this stunt if you managed to let forth a powerful and sustained exhaust of flatulence.

These largely empty volumes of space – the far-rural regions of each galaxy – contain too little visible matter to explain the anomalously high orbital speeds of the tracers.

Looking more closely at Earth’s atmospheric fingerprints, human biomarkers will also include sulfuric, carbonic, and nitric acids, and other components of smog from the burning of fossil fuels. If the curious aliens happen to be socially, culturally, and technologically more advanced than we are, then they will surely interpret these biomarkers as convincing evidence for the absence of intelligent life on Earth.

Your body has to come up with about 100 watts of energy to keep yourself warm.

When something glows from being heated, it emits light in all parts of the spectrum, but will always peak somewhere.

Sir William Herschel was the first person to discover a planet beyond those easily visible to the naked eye, and he was ready to name it after the King – always a safe bet when you are his subject. Had Sir William succeeded, the planet list would read: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and George.

Collectively, these findings tell us it’s conceivable that life began on Mars and later seeded life on Earth, a process known as panspermia.

Distant galaxies now visible in the night sky will ultimately disappear beyond an unreachable horizon, receding from us faster than the speed of light.

The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them.

If a huge genetic gap separated us from our closest relative in the animal kingdom, we could justifiably celebrate our brilliance. We might be entitled to walk around thinking we’re distant and distinct from our fellow creatures. But no such gap exists. Instead, we are one with the rest of nature, fitting neither above nor below, but within.

We are seeing these nearby stars, not as they are at the present moment, but as they were 4 years ago.

I don’t know about you, but the planet Saturn pops into my mind with every bite of a hamburger I take.

Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.

Country Quotes

I don’t have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what’s the next discovery I can make; that’s in my direct center.

Swiss-American astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky.

Decade by decade: estimates of Pluto’s size got smaller and smaller.

The word “lepton” derives from the Greek leptos, meaning “light” or “small.

Celestial happenings, however, don’t limit themselves to what’s convenient for the human retina.

With only one proton in its nucleus, hydrogen is the lightest and simplest element, made entirely during the big bang. Out of the ninety-four naturally occurring elements, hydrogen lays claim to more than two-thirds of all the atoms in the human body, and more than ninety percent of all atoms in the cosmos, on all scales, right on down to the solar system.

You need to live in a nation whose government values the search to understand humanity’s place in the universe.

No way around it: some of the water you just drank passed through the kidneys of Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc. How about air? Also vital. A single breathful draws in more air molecules than there are breathfuls of air in Earth’s entire atmosphere. That means some of the air you just breathed passed through the lungs of Napoleon, Beethoven, Lincoln, and Billy the Kid.

I believe that the manned space program can engage the public by advancing the space frontier. Every next mission takes you farther out in space than you were before, either technologically or in terms of distance.

Three quarks for Muster Mark!” One thing quarks do have going for them: all their names are simple – something chemists, biologists, and especially geologists seem incapable of achieving when naming their own stuff.

From that day on, I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being, with a direct genetic link across species both living and extinct, extending back nearly four billion years to the earliest single-celled organisms on Earth.

The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

So lambda’s sole job was to oppose gravity within Einstein’s model, keeping the universe in balance, resisting the natural tendency for gravity to pull the whole universe into one giant mass.

It’s part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus the other.

Can space exist in the absence of matter, if matter defines the edge of space?” Merlin.

Dark matter is dark; that means it does not interact with photons.

While most branches of science have ascended in this era, the field of astrophysics persistently rises to the top. I think I know why. At one time or another every one of us has looked up at the night sky and wondered: What does it all mean? How does it all work? And, what is my place in the universe?

These waves, predicted by Einstein, are ripples moving at the speed of light across the fabric of space-time, and are generated by severe gravitational disturbances, such as the collision of two black holes.

But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy.

As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don’t even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them.

We are only intelligent by our own measures.

To earn the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed.

The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them.

We are born of this universe, we live in this universe, and the universe is in us.

Even if you’re bad at math, you’re probably much better at it than the smartest chimpanzee, whose genetic identity varies in only trifling ways from ours.

The closest anybody has come is to presume dark energy is a quantum effect – where the vacuum of space, instead of being empty, actually seethes with particles and their antimatter counterparts. They pop in and out of existence in pairs, and don’t last long enough to be measured.

The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us. In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their “low contracted prejudices.” And that would be the last gasp of human enlightenment – until the rise of a visionary new culture that could once again embrace, rather than fear, the cosmic perspective.

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