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?
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONToday, 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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When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
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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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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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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 don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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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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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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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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Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.
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