There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONPerhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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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 don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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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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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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 wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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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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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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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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