Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

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After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?

Neil deGrasse Tyson (Death by Black Hole, 2007)

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is something to be proud of, it allows us to understand the world inspite of ourselves.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (Interview, 2011)

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