God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONAs they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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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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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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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 object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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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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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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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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We 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.
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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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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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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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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 is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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