Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

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.

Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it? if not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming.

Your soul is the whole world.

Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.

You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

That which I named 'innate' is a segment of that intelligence which fills the universe.

There is nothing unimportant in the universe.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more important that we're not reaching by the usual goals of human society. Perhaps we could say there's a common heart to all the religions.

Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you.

You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

I feel the presence of God when I feel the essence of divinity in anything and everything around me.

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff

I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God. According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God.

Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.