It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWhen students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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