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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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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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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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