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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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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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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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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 under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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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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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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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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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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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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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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