Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
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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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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It’s better to understand something than to memorize something.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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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 dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is 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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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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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
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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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Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.
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Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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