I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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.
More Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.
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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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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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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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Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
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The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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