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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONAs they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
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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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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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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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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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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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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Somehow 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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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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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 scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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