Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONNo one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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 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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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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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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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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