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StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond QUOTES

StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond QUOTES

1 " The seven largest emitters of fossil fuels—the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, Japan, India, and China "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

2 " At Concordia, a European science station based in Antarctica, about a dozen intrepid people spend months at a time together in perpetual darkness, farther from civilization than the International Space Station is from Earth. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

3 " That’s like watching Columbus sail out of the harbor. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

4 " In one single underground deposit alone scientists have found a huge slab of frozen water—ice that’s six times the area of New England and more than 100 feet deep. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

5 " and he’s sticking a you-know-what slowly into my you-know-where, "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

6 " Blue cheese gets its flavor and color from the penicillin fungus "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

7 " Twinkling happens when the light from a distant point travels through that atmosphere; its light beam dances ever so slightly in random directions many times—sometimes thousands of times—each second. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

8 " Every time you turn a bigger telescope to the night sky, we end up smaller than we had previously imagined…It is an ego-dismantling device, "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

9 " Could it be that our understanding of the laws of physics is fundamentally wrong? ■ "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

10 " The largest black hole that could have evaporated since the big bang would have to have been smaller than an atomic nucleus. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

11 " JWST will be sensitive to both optical and infrared light. Its adaptive optics will be able to pick out infant galaxies as well as planets orbiting distant stars. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

12 " you take a swig of water…It contains water molecules that have passed through the kidneys of Abraham Lincoln, of Genghis Khan, of Jesus… "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

13 " Astronomers think much of Earth’s oceans could have been formed by comets striking our planet and depositing their water on Earth’s surface. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

14 " Half of the stars you see aren’t solo stars at all. They’re double, multiple, triple, quadruple star systems. Even, for example, the nearest star to the sun, Alpha Centauri, that’s a multiple star system. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

15 " In life, lots of things occupy two or more classifications, "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

16 " Parts of Mars’ surface is very close to the triple point of water, when it can be solid, liquid, and steam at the same time. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

17 " We explore the solar system and the rest of the cosmos with our robots, which are basically our eyes and our ears. So it’s great: I get to go explore the cosmos from the comfort of my couch, which I love. I can still eat doughnuts…It’s a much better life.” —DR. AMY MAINZER, ASTROPHYSICIST "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

18 " Frozen water is less dense than liquid water…and ice floats. In the winter, the top surface [of a lake] gets cold. The top water will freeze, and not drop, thereby insulating the liquid water below, protecting the fishes through the winter months. It’s a remarkable feature of water. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

19 " Are Robots “Them” or “Us”? "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

20 " everyone can love art, music, poetry, politics, engineering, science, and math all at the same time. "

― Neil deGrasse Tyson , StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond