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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

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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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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