Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONFor me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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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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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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