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You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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Enough Imagination Nature Reality Wonderful
So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were ‘reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.’
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Education Empath Formal Imagination Reading Training Writing
I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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Class Myself Object Religion Room Science
Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow’s problems flow.
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Flow Literature Problem Science Solution
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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Cure Humanity Ignorance Reason Start Virus
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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Cosmos Learning Limitation Sand Surprise
Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.
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Enlightenment Imagination Objection Truth
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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Congratulation Curiosity People Success Time
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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Goodness Literature Mathematics Myself People Reading
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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Life Ocean Universe Water
As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion… Although just as in hostage negotiations, it’s probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.
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Best Common Current Ground Practice
If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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Enough People Smart Success Yourself
If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.
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Affect Belief Decision People Reality System Yourself
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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Cosmos Emotion Fragile Human Ignorance Journey Lesson Universe
My goal is not to shove information into your head. It’s to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don’t have to tell a child to explore the backyard.
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Children Exploration Goal Head Ignition Information Yourself
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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Alien Death Human Hungry Idiot

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