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"Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars."
"The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion."
"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."
"The power and beauty of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. With the law of gravity, if you throw something up, it's gonna come down. You can't say, 'I don't believe in gravity; I think something will fall up.'"
"I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, 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."
"One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish evidence, but people prefer reassurance to research."
"The good thing about space is that it got no color. The good thing about black holes is that they got no color too. It's the absence of color that makes them so cool."
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"I'm often asked whether I believe in global warming. I now just reply with the question: Do you believe in gravity?"
"The universe is both the ultimate frontier and the highest of high grounds. Shared by all, moved by none, it just is."
"I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime."
"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation."
"In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear."
"In the long run, the purveyors of truth are inevitably the enemies of power. And power strikes back."
"The power and beauty of physical laws is liberating. They take the meaning of life away from a deity and put it in the hands of physics and chemistry."
"If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you and that understanding empowers you."
"The good thing about skepticism is that it's plural. Once you have a good toolbox, you realize the world is a complicated place."
"I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge."
"There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance."
"The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there is a high likelihood that life exists beyond Earth."
"When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a blind nonbeliever."
"We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there."
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"If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true."
"The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation."
"A person who is unafraid of making mistakes or risking failure is someone who will almost certainly succeed in the long run."
"To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
"The knowledge and tools of science are accessible to anyone who takes the time to learn them. There is never a justification for choosing ignorance."
"Don't call yourself a scientist if you're not curious."
"In five billion years, the Sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day."
"Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us."
"If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
"The universe is in us."
"I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm not doing, they can do it better. And joyfully accept what they can teach me. I mean, I do that."
"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."
"I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime."
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"Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets."
"The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all."
"There is no greater education than one that is self-driven."
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether you believe it or not."
"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."
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
"In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies."
"The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores."
"We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out."
"I wonder whether there's such a thing as a sense of the universe, a feeling for the universe that comes through us."
"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."
"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."
"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."
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
"The moment you stop questioning, the moment you stop helping others, the moment you go to sleep and put yourself into a shell, you might as well be dead."
"The good thing about being in the academic world is because it's inherently incremental, almost nothing is wasted."
"Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life."
"The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them."
"When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier."
"What got me interested in life up there, is us down here."
"When I was using my calculator, and it was in the wrong mode, what was it doing?"
"Education empowers you. If you're not educated, then you're not going anywhere in this world."
"Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow."
"If aliens did come, we would never be able to understand them because they would be so different from us."
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