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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWhy 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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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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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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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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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 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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to 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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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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