If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWhat 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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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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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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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