Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONScience literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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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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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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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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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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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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