Celecia Tyson Quotes

#1. I don't do anything. My life sucks. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#2. If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion of the universe and giving birth to all the energy and all the matter we know today. I know that sounds crazy, but there's strong observational evidence to support the Big Bang theory. And it includes the amount of helium in the cosmos and the glow of radio waves left over from the explosion. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. We want to transcend our history without actually confronting it. We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. #Quote by Timothy B. Tyson

#5. You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why? #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#10. Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium". #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#11. Sometimes emotions can win fights. Sometimes letting your feelings out in a fight can win you the fight. When it means the world to you, it's not just a sports contest - a boxing match for money or belts. #Quote by Tyson Fury

#12. I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#13. I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: 'Have you HEARD THIS? #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#14. Back when I was a kid, I never liked the kind of kids that my kids have become. They're privileged and have things very easy. But I'm proud of them. None of my kids are getting high, they love school, they're very popular. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#15. 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. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#16. Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam #Quote by Michael Spinks

#17. Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will rise until it matches the 3,000-degree rarified outer layers of the expanded Sun ... But not to worry. We will surely go extinct for some other reason long before this scenario unfolds. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#18. Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#19. There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me. #Quote by Tyson Fury

#20. The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#21. I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#22. You will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic perspective such as the entire community of astrophysicists leading nations into battle. No, that doesn't happen. When you have a cosmic perspective, there's this little speck called Earth and you say you're going to do what? You're on this side of a line in the sand and you want to kill people for what? #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#23. It is still evident that the problem of finances is an enormously important one. The lack of money to do the job and to compete successfully for audiences with elaborate and attractive commercial programs seems almost hopeless. As far back as 1936, Doctor [Levering] Tyson . . . stated at the joint meeting of the Council and the Institute for Education by Radio at Columbus: Unfortunately, there is not much chance to get money until there is some general understanding of, and agreement in, country-wide objectives to which local and regional objectives can be fitted, and until controversy over these objectives is eliminated so that a unified plan of procedure can be followed #Quote by Judith C. Waller

#24. Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#25. The Princess Andromeda?"
"Went ka-boom. #Quote by Rick Riordan

#26. I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#27. If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if everybody thinks about tomorrow, then someday we can visit the sky together. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#28. He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said ... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#29. In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for jury duty. I show up on time, ready to serve. When we get to the voir dire, the lawyer says to me, "I see you're an astrophysicist. What's that?" I answer, "Astrophysics is the laws of physics, applied to the universe - the Big Bang, black holes, that sort of thing." Then he asks, "What do you teach at Princeton?" and I say, "I teach a class on the evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony." Five minutes later, I'm on the street.

A few years later, jury duty again. The judge states that the defendant is charged with possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine. It was found on his body, he was arrested, and he is now on trial. This time, after the Q&A is over, the judge asks us whether there are any questions we'd like to ask the court, and I say, "Yes, Your Honor. Why did you say he was in possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine? That equals 1.7 grams. The 'thousand' cancels with the 'milli-' and you get 1.7 grams, which is less than the weight of a dime." Again I'm out on the street. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#30. 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. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#31. The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#32. After Sandy hit, my wife and I saw pictures of the devastation following the hurricane in the news. We immediately wanted to find a way to assist those in need. #Quote by Tyson Chandler

#33. Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#34. That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#35. To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#36. There wouldn't be a Halle Berry or an Angela Bassett or a Cicely Tyson if there hadn't been a Lena Horne. #Quote by Dee Dee Bridgewater

#37. The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#38. By day, contrary to common wisdom, you probably won't see the Great Pyramids at Giza, and you certainly won't see the Great Wall of China. Their obscurity is partly the result of having been made from the soil and stone of the surrounding landscape. And although the Great Wall is thousands of miles long, it's only about twenty feet wide - much narrower than the U.S. interstate highways you can barely see from a transcontinental jet.

From orbit, with the unaided eye, you would have seen smoke plumes rising from the oil-field fires in Kuwait at the end of the first Persian Gulf War in 1991 and smoke from the burning World Trade Center towers in New York City on September 11, 2001. You will also notice the green–brown boundaries between swaths of irrigated and arid land. Beyond that shortlist, there's not much else made by humans that's identifiable from hundreds of miles up in the sky. You can see plenty of natural scenery, though, including hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, ice floes in the North Atlantic, and volcanic eruptions wherever they occur. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#39. I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#40. When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn't wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#41. I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#42. I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life. #Quote by Tyson Gay

#43. Curious fact that those who never fail are also those who never truly succeed. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#44. As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out in space, pressure hitting a gas cloud has a similar effect, except, instead of snowballs, you get stars! #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#45. I love my mother.
My mother loves my dad.
Those two facts are undeniable.
I want my father to live.
I want him to fight to live as long as he can.
My mother wants to let him pass.
She does not want him suffering anymore.
She says that I am not there in the middle of the night at home, when he begs her to let him die.
I say that he should not be taking the medicine that the doctor is prescribing, that it made Mike Tyson want to eat his opponents young. #Quote by JohnA Passaro

#46. Tyson let loose a huge belch. "Better now. #Quote by Rick Riordan

#47. In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs ... we are treated to her view of this Hollywood sky-one where the stars on the right half of the scene trace the mirror image of the stars in the left half. How lazy can you get? #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#48. Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone ... all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as the ever-cooling background. At that time, space travel will no longer provide refuge because even Hell will have frozen over. We may then declare that the universe has died-not with a bang, but with a whimper. #Quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson