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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Believe Fact True Yourself
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Close Pretend Reality
It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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Better Choice Remember Understand
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Ignorance Literature Science World Yourself
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Learning Love Myself Wrong
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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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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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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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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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Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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Curiosity Light Plant Reflection Rejection 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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of 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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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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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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