In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONI know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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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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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
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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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If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.
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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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Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
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