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“We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.”

Thinking Universe Study Percent Luminous Astronomers

Author:Vera Rubin

“In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.”

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Book:Critical Path

Source: Critical Path

“85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.”

Knows Universe Percent Gravity

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe . . . we are completely irrelevant.”

Ifs Knows Universe Bits Percent Pollution Irrelevant Insignificant

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

“When we look at the universe, what we see by eye or with our telescopes is only five percent of the universe. The rest, 95 percent is dark. Dark meaning, first of all, not visible to our instrument. Second, dark also indicates our ignorance. We don't know what's the composition of this part of the universe.”

Knows Firsts Looks Eye Universe Dark Five Ignorance Percent Instruments Visible Composition Telescopes

Author:Fabiola Gianotti

“95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin.”

Universe Known Percent

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of biology - that's 4 percent of the universe. We got to the moon on the 4 percent we do understand. We landed on Mars on the 4 percent we do understand. So the day we crack the nut of the rest of that 95 percent... Oh my gosh.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up 5 percent of our universe.”

Kind Matter Universe Energy Stuff Percent Particles Laboratory Matter And Energy

Author:Sean M. Carroll

“Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.”

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Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe”

Has Beens Matter Universe Three Minutes Percent

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything