It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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 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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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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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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.
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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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What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
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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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