Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we’re alone in the universe.
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God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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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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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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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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