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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?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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For 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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My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
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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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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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