Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONCurious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
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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 good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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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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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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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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