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.
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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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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?
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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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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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Today, 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.
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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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What 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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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