The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONSomehow 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 think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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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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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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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 scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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.
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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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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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