The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONImagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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.
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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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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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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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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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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