What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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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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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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