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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI 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.
More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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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.
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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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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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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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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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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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