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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
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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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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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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Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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