Ego Busting by Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson, a very famous astrophysicist said in an interview to 'The Late Show' that "if you look up in the universe and feel small it's because you started out with an ego unjustifiably too high to begin with" and that made me shook. When I first started studying astronomy that was exactly how I felt: small. Does it means that I have a too high ego? Well, apparently yes. Astronomy, for me, is philosophy. It makes us wonder about our lives on Earth, our behavior, how we feel about ourselves and the ones next to us. When we think we know too much, when we think we are smart enough... A single sentence can change our whole conception of we believed that once was true. In Portuguese we have an expression that literally says "the Earth doesn't revolves around you" and it's used when somebody's thinking they're too much, when they're being supercilious. Basically it says: "stop thinking that you are the center of the universe when you're just a tiny particle in the immensity." and is there any other expression that makes as much sense as this one? I hope the next time we've been feeling so big that we feel like mistreating someone else (same species or not) we look at ourselves from the universe and remember that we're exactly the same, we're not special or different from one another.