If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONSomehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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 each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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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 think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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