The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONScience literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
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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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The day that you stop looking – because you’re content God did it – I don’t need you in the lab. You’re useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.
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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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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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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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’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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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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The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust.
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After 50 years of television, there’s no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
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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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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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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