Poetry Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination”

“I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime”

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”

“Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?”

“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars- the high mass ones among them- went unstable in their later years- they collapsed and then exploded- scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy- guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems- stars with orbiting planets. And those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the night sky, and I know that yes 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. When I reflect on that fact, I look up- many people feel small, cause their small and the universe is big. But I feel big because my atoms came from those stars.”

“from my chair i can see the street and it seems depressing”

“Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice”

“I surrendered my identity in your eyes.”

“Maybe when water yearned for fire / it invented waves / so one day they might become flames”

“And when the dawn comes creeping in,”

“Thus weary of the world, away she hies,”