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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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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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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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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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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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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