Season
by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brannon Braga, Ann Druyan, Bill Pope, Kevin Dart and 2 others
(21 total)
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“There seems to be a mysterious force in the universe, one that overwhelms gravity on the grandest scale to push the cosmos apart….We call it ‘dark energy,’ but that name, like ‘dark matter,’ is merely a code word for our ignorance. It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our igno…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“I could be thousands of miles away, and yet, when you turn on whatever device is bringing my image and voice to you, I'm there. Instantaneously. How is that possible?....It all began in the mind of one person….This is the story of how we learned to make electrons do our bidding.”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“Congratulations. You're alive. There's an unbroken thread that stretches across more than three billion years that connects us to the first life that ever touched this world. Think of how tough, resourceful and lucky all of our countless ancestors must have been to survive long enough to pass on the…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“Few animals larger than a hundred pounds survived the catastrophes of the late Cretaceous. The dust cloud brought night and cold to the surface for months. The dinosaurs froze and starved to death. But there were small creatures who took shelter in the Earth. And when they emerged they found that th…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“Two-thirds of the Earth lies beneath more than 1,000 feet of water. It's a vast and largely unexplored frontier....This is the longest submarine mountain range in the world, the Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge. It wraps around our globe like the seam on a baseball. The past is another planet, but most of u…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“There are many kinds of stars. Some are bright like the Sun. Some are dim. The greatest stars are ten million times larger than the smallest ones. Some stars are old beyond imagining, more than ten billion years of age. Others are being born right now. When atoms fuse in the hearts of stars, they ma…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“For thousands of generations we watched the stars as if our lives depended on it, because they did….[O]ur ancestors noticed that the motions of the stars across the nights of the year foretold changes on Earth that threatened or enhanced our chances for survival.”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“The age and size of the cosmos are written in light. The nature of beauty and the substance of the stars, the laws of space and time they were there all along, but we never saw them until we devised a more powerful way of seeing.”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“Every star is a sun as big, as bright as our own. Just imagine how far away from us you'd have to move the Sun to make it appear as small and faint as a star. The light from the stars travels very fast, faster than anything, but not infinitely fast. It takes time for their light to reach us. For the…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, William Herschel, Patrick Stewart, imdb.com
“Using nothing more than Newton's laws of gravitation, we astronomers can confidently predict that several billion years from now our home galaxy—the Milky Way—will merge with our neighboring galaxy—Andromeda…Any life on the worlds of that far off future…would be treated to an amazing billion-year-lo…”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“The Theory of Evolution, like the Theory of Gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science, in my view, it's also a soaring spiritual experience.”
— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com