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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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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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As 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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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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