Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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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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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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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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