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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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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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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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Curiously, 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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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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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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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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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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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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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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