No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONCuriously, 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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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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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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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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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.
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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 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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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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