I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem is the limited capacity of the human mind to grasp the relative magnitudes of large numbers. Counting at the rate of one number per second...to count to a trillion takes 32,000 years, which is as much time as has elapsed since people first drew on cave walls.
Neil deGrasse TysonTo believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.
Neil deGrasse TysonComputers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions.
Neil deGrasse TysonThere are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver.
Neil deGrasse Tyson