Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONThe theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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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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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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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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You can’t have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That’s a recipe for disaster. And I don’t mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.
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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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When students cheat on exams, it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
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To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.
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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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One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to 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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