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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONImagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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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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My 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 you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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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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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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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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