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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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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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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to 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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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
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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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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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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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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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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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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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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can’t have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.
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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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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 each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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