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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI 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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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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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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 good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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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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