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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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Children Learning Life Talk Walk Wrong
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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Enough Imagination Nature Reality Wonderful
Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
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Goodness Literature Mathematics Myself People Reading
We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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Encouragement Live Need People World
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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Ideas Life Mindset Open Yourself
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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Flow Literature Problem Science Solution
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Biology Connection Deep Each Other Earth Science Universe
Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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Fools Science Way Yourself
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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History Human Ignorance Myself Time
It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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Better Choice Remember Understand
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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Earth Fantasy Intelligence Life Rejection Visit
The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Be Yourself Greatness Inspirational Motivational People Society Version
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
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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Desperate Opinion True Truth Yourself
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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Life Ocean Universe Water
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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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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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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