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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 Tyson

There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Community Greatness People Science Truth
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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Children Exploration Goal Head Ignition Information Yourself
If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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Academic Argument Better Job Need People
When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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Cheating Exam Learning Student Value
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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Fundamental Information Knowledge Natural World
Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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Curiosity Light Plant Reflection Rejection Yourself
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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Capacity Law Nature People Seek Thinking Victim Yourself
The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Be Yourself Greatness Inspirational Motivational People Society Version
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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Ideas Life Mindset Open Yourself
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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Believe Different Experiment Result True Work Yourself
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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Desperate Opinion True Truth Yourself
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Biology Connection Deep Each Other Earth Science Universe
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Learning Love Myself Wrong
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Evolution Gravity Science Theory
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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Children Learning Life Talk Walk Wrong

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.

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