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“Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.”

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, science communicator, and television personality. Born on October 5, 1958, he is renowned for his deep understanding of the cosmos and his ability to popularize scientific knowledge. Tyson grew up in New York City and earned a Ph.D. in astronomy from Columbia University. He served as the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History and has been a member of various scientific committees. more

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“We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find out, "Well, this works because there's certain regimes we've never tested it in." Had we done so, we would show that it didn't work: For example, at very high speeds, very high gravity, Newton's laws fail. They just fail. You need Einstein's laws of motion and gravity. Those would be his special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity. Now you invoke those and it works.”

“If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations.”

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“You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories.”

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“We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe - we call these singularities - Einstein's equations fail. In fact, people have joked that's where God is dividing by zero.”

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“Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us.”

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“The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science, which marches on and makes discoveries in those gaps, ultimately closing gaps.”

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“If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.”

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“Right now people think God is dark energy and dark matter, the spirit. Go ahead and think that, but the day we can tell you exactly what it is - that it's gremlins in the vacuum of space or whatever - then what's your recourse at that point?”

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“I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread.”

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“The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis.”

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