The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONYou 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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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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God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
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If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that’s not how you advance a democracy.
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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 literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.
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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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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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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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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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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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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