Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONFor 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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The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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