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.
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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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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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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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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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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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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 good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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