I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSONTo 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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Facts are true whether or not you believe them.
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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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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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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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
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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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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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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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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The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
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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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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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We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others. It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.
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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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