Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONEveryone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
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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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There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
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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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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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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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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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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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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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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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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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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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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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