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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Somehow it’s O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, ‘I never learned to read,’ they’d say I was an illiterate dolt.
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Goodness Literature Mathematics Myself People Reading
If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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Desperate Opinion True Truth Yourself
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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Believe Different Experiment Result True Work Yourself
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Believe Goodness Science True Yourself
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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Capacity Law Nature People Seek Thinking Victim Yourself
Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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Close Pretend Reality
The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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Body Literature Stardom Universe
Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Believe Fact True Yourself
Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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Fools Science Way Yourself
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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Alien Close Earth Examination Fact Human Intelligence Life
The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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Earth Old Thinking Universe
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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Curious Dumb Live People Yourself
If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.
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Earth Inspirational Motivational Planet Power
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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Affect Belief Decision People Reality System Yourself
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Ignorance Literature Science World Yourself
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

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