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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

My 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.
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Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun’s green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green.
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Curiosity Light Plant Reflection Rejection Yourself
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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Education Empath Formal Imagination Reading Training Writing
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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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Drive Philosophy Suffering Surprise World Yourself
Aliens might be surprised to learn that in a cosmos with limitless starlight, humans kill for energy sources buried in the sand.
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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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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 love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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Learning Love Myself Wrong
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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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 good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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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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Buy Food Human Store Wild Yourself
Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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Believe Fact True Yourself
I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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