For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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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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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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