I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONIf 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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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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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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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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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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