Quotes About Perspective

When you explore the same basic information—the same data—from many different perspectives, especially when you compare one risk that you accept to another that you reject, the relevant details shine brightly while the irrelevant details melt away. These are the beginnings of an enlightened, scientifically literate perspective.

There's nothing like the right telescope in the right hands of the right person at the right time for the right price.

The cosmic perspective is humble.

The cosmic perspective opens our eyes to the universe, not as a benevolent cradle designed to nurture life but as a cold, lonely, hazardous place, forcing us to reassess the value of all humans to one another.

Astrophysics teaches us that we're not the center of the world.

The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought, the large and the small, from a universe that began in a space far tinier than the period at the end of this sentence to one that is now many billions of light-years across.

The cosmic perspective helps us to see beyond our circumstances, allowing us to realize that life is about more than money, popularity, clothes, sports, or even grades.

The cosmic perspective shows us that the very atoms and particles that make up our bodies are spread across the universe itself, making us one and the same.

Allow there to be a spectrum in all that you see.

Even when arguing opinions, you may be surprised how potent a rational perspective can be. When illuminated by it, you fast discover that Earth supports not many tribes, but only one—the human tribe. That's when many disagreements soften, while others simply evaporate, leaving you with nothing to argue about in the first place.

A perspectiva cósmica abre nossos olhos para o universo, não como um berço benevolente concebido para gerar a vida, mas como um lugar frio, solitário e perigoso, nos obrigando a reavaliar o valor de todos os humanos um para o outro.

Don't start an argument with someone thinking they have the same level of knowledge as you on a particular topic.

the universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

upon learning of a 1931 book entitled One Hundred Authors Against Einstein,†† he responded that if he were wrong, then only one would have been enough.

Children do not yet know that the world doesn't revolve around them.

The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we're told.

We went to the moon, looking to discover it, and we looked back and we discovered Earth for the first time.

The Cosmic Perspective reminds us that in space, where there is no air, a flag will not wave. An indication that perhaps flag-waving and space exploration do not mix.

First, get your facts straight. Then, distort them at your leisure.

If we instead back away from all that divides us, you might find common, unifying perspectives on the world. If so, watch where you step.

Tutti noi, a un certo punto, abbiamo alzato gli occhi al cielo di notte e ci siamo chiesti: che significa tutto questo? Come funziona? E qual è il mio posto nell'Universo

Every time you turn a bigger telescope to the night sky, we end up smaller than we had previously imagined…It is an ego-dismantling device

Neil: Were you strapped to a Saturn V rocket, with nine million pounds of thrust, and sent a quarter-million miles away into deep space to witness Earthrise from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve? Madalyn: No. Neil: Then shut the fuck up. In