Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Series)

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.

At odds in the universe were two competing effects: gravity wants to make stuff coagulate, but the expansion wants to dilute it.