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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

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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Fundamental Information Knowledge Natural World
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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Children Exploration Goal Head Ignition Information Yourself
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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Academic Argument Better Job Need People
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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Encouragement Live Need People World
When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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Human Mathematics Mindset Natural Probability Statistics
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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God Need Satisfaction Stop Understand World
Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Amazing Day Mindset Surprise
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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Cure Humanity Ignorance Reason Start Virus
As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Area Ignorance Knowledge
The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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Be Yourself Greatness Inspirational Motivational People Society Version
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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Enough Imagination Nature Reality Wonderful
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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Device Internet Learning Science
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Believe Blind Decline Investigation Natural Science See World Worst
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
You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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Decision Disaster Future Literature Office People Politics Recipe Vote
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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Community Greatness People Science Truth

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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