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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
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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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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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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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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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