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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONPractically 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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONMy goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWe live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONGod is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThere’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONScience literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONClaiming 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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONScience literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONToday, 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.
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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe 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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONAfter 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONSo 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.’
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONWhat 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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