So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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