The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONOur nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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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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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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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 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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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?
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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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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.
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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.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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