I truly wish some people would accept science. There is so much beauty out there in the world, and its so wonderful to just understand it better. And the best thing about science to me is, it takes so much imagination and thought to truly comprehend.
Birds are amazing creatures, they flit and fly and do such amazing things that make us humans so friggin’ jealous. But I can’t help but look at them and see their history. To think, their ancestors were the dinosaurs. Its evolution at its purest, and its so amazing to just look at them and see the skeletons of those ancient, huge creatures. Those little creatures have survived so much through the eons.... But how is it not amazing to think, the Dinosaurs didn’t become extinct, they evolved and survived, to thrive again.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an amazing scientist. And he’s done quite a bit to further the frontier of astronomy. In the end, its his ability to make quotes, and make much of science easy to learn that most talk about him now for. Well, that and he’s the one that changed the planetary rules which demoted Pluto from being a planet....
Anyways, some of his quotes really take me as something think about. It doesn’t take a huge mind to understand that atoms are hard to change. Just look at the atomic bomb.... But then if you think about that, its hard not to look at certain elements and wonder about them, how were those atoms made? They were created inside stars, with their huge mass and crushing gravity, gravity and power that fuses atoms into new elements, then they explode in supernovas sending those new elements out....
“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.”
Science doesn’t negate any principles one can learn from anywhere, it just expands on the entirety of existence. It shows us the smallest parts of us, to what is further than we can see with the help of telescopes. It bends the imagination, and makes me truly love being alive. I like Knowing, I love learning, and I love thinking, truly thinking, about life, and how special each person is, whether they accept that or not.
--Dan
