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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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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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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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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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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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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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