It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONPart 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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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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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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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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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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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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 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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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