Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, 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?

You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

Military history is essential to understanding any history and, moreover, is a terrifying and sobering study in the realities of human nature - for yes, to me, such a thing exists, and history indeed proves it.

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief!

Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. We understand there are bigger problems we need to solve as a species than what God you pray to.

In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

One would think that man would run out of wars.

And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.