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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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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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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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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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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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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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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.’
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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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What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works.
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