Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONNo one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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There’s a saying in the scientific community, that every great truth goes through three phases. First, people deny it. Second, they say that it conflicts with the Bible. Third, they say that they’ve known it all along.
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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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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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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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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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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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Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
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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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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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