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Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.
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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
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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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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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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
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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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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
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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.
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In the end, it’s the people who are curious who change the world.
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When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
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Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.
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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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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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If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into 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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