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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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Enough People Smart Success Yourself
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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Earth Old Thinking Universe
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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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Courage Generation Ourselves
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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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 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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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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