When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONEveryone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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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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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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