When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.
Neil deGrasse TysonI try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of ideas about our place in the universe has been a long series of let-downs for those who like to believe we are special.
Neil deGrasse TysonNothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing.
Neil deGrasse TysonI'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.
Neil deGrasse TysonI 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. When I reflect on that fact, I look up โ many people feel small, because theyโre small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.
Neil deGrasse Tyson