When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe 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.
More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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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 are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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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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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 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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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