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.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONOne 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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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 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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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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The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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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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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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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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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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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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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