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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

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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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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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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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?
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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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We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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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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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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Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There’s no wild cows.
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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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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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If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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