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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf 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 a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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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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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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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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