"Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos."
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"On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642"
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"There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics."
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"Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?"
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"We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe"
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"Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security."
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"We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our birth, and it's quite possible that without it, our stable, stately solar system would never exist at all."
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"Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium"."
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"A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years. It releases as much energy in an instant as our sun will produce over its 10-billion-year lifetime."
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"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."
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"George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is the God who named the stars. The problem is: two-thirds of all stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. That would confound the point that he was making."
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"To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble."
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"God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
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"When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics."
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"No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science."
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"Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer."
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"For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now."
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"The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'"
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"God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system."
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"If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true."
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