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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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 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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What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
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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 object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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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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