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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONGod displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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