Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWe 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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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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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As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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Why 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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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 be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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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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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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