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Death by Black Hole (2007) (edit title/settings)

And Other Cosmic Quandaries

by Neil deGrasse Tyson (Author) (edit contributors)

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A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation's best-known astrophysicist. Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity... read more

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  • Lord Kelvin: British scientist who determined absolute zero
  • Albert Einstein: Famous for his work on relativity and the atomic bomb
  • Frank Drake: American astronomer who invented the Drake equation to estimate the number of civilizations one would find in the galaxy
  • Sir Isaac Newton: British scientist most famous for his work on gravity
  • Max Planck: German scientist who discovered a constant that is used in many quantum mechanics equations
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  • “Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.”
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  • I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.
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  • What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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  • Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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  • And behold the greatest mystery of them all: an unopened can of diet Pepsi floats in water while an unopened can of regular Pepsi sinks.
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  • The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.
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  • I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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  • What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves.
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  • Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. —EDWIN P. HUBBLE (1889–1953), The Nature of Science
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  • we must go home knowing that 85 percent of all the gravity in the cosmos comes from an unknown, mysterious source that remains completely undetected by all means we have ever devised to observe the universe. As far as we can tell, it’s not made of ordinary stuff such as electrons, protons, and neutrons, or any form of matter or energy that interacts with them. We call this ghostly, offending substance “dark matter,” and it remains among the greatest of all quandaries.
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  • By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But according to rules of Latin genitives, to be “of Venus” ought to make you a Venereal.
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First Sentence edit see section history

Among our five senses, sight is the most special to us.

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. The nature of knowledge
2. The knowledge of nature
3. Ways and means of nature
4. The meaning of life
5. When the universe turns bad
6. Science and culture
7. Science and god

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  1. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Publication Date: January 22, 2007
ISBN: 0393062244
Page Count: 384

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Reading Level: Young Adults

For the very interested preteen, but mostly young adult/teens.

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