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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.

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
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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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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End Environment Issues Nature Science
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
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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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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what’s really there.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I object to religion in science classrooms not because it’s religion but because it’s not science.
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If each dead person became a ghost, there’d be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool.
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Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
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I don’t want people to say, ‘Something is true because Tyson says it is true.’ That’s not critical thinking.
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