Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONMy goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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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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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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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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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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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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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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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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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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There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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