“We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is.” KnowsShouldMatterUniverseEnergyDarkShould HaveAccountsFamiliarGravityDark MatterMatter And Energy Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.” MenShouldStatesUniverseAnimalEnemySeriousSourceElementsShould HaveConstantPursuitNakedChiefsShockOddsFascinationCarelessnessInventivenessTinkering Author:Eric Hoffer
“What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?” IfsMenShouldYearsLittlesEndsMatterLastsUniverseKnowledgeOur LivesHigherTenShould HaveEternityInfinityWhat MattersDurationMore Knowledge Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.” ShouldBelieveHumansDesireUniverseI BelieveWorryPerspectiveShould HaveBroads Author:Stephen Hawking
“We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe was made.'” ShouldMadeUniverseMessagesShould HaveDustPocketsAshes Author:Joan D. Chittister