To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI 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 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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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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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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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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 all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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