The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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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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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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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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The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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